filch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make off with belongings of others
    pilfer; pinch; abstract; swipe; sneak; purloin; hook; lift; snarf; cabbage; nobble.

WordNet

Filch transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. AS. feoln to stick to, OHG. felhan, felahan, to hide, Icel. fela, Goth. filhan to hide, bury, Prov. E. feal to hide slyly, OE. felen.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Filched ; present participle & verbal noun Filching
Definitions
  1. To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
    Fain would they filch that little food away. Dryden.
    But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shak.

Webster 1913