- present participle of filch.
filching
Example Sentences
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Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.
From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2021
A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020
Luhnow offered this lament even as the Astros were filching pitching signs like itchy-fingered bank robbers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018
Thou hast a knave within thy house—Hodge, a servant of thine; They tell me that busy knave is such a filching one, That hen, pig, goose or capon, thy neighbour can have none.
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Mr. S. Mr. of Art
