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

He ne'er by any luck was grieved, By any care perplexed— No filcher he, though when he preached, He always "took" a text.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

He would meet, when need be, the grim-visaged monster of dissolution with the dignity of a stoic, but by habit disdained not to dodge the shadow with the practised agility of a filcher and scamp.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

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