filcher

Example Sentences

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For years, reluctant sharers only had to fend off the occasional fry filcher, or the girlfriend who virtuously passes on dessert — and then plants her fork in her companion’s creme brulee.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015

No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Mohi and Yoomy in a breath, "Who sought your opinion, philosopher? you filcher from old Bardianna, and monger of maxims!"

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

This man bore a high reputation in his calling, and was, indeed, esteemed as a sort of Scottish Vidocq, who knew by headmark every filcher of a handkerchief between Caithness and the Border.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

His kneading tub and his pavin are the two misteries of his occupation and he is a filcher by his trade, but the miller is before him.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John