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filcher

filcher noun: one who filches; a thief.

Noun

filcher (plural filchers)

  1. One who filches; a thief.
    • But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,
      The very plague and torment of his soul,
      The harbinger of battle and of strife,
      And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;1820 August, Daniel O'Rourke, “An Epic Poem, in Six Cantos”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7, number 41, page 35
    • Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize1991, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, Sean Altman, David Yazbek (music), performed by Rockapella

filcher meaning in Urdu

Forms of filcher

pluralfilchers

Origin of filcher

From filch + -er.

Questions about filcher

What does filcher mean?
Filcher means one who filches; a thief.
What is filcher in Urdu?
Filcher in Urdu is چور. See Filcher meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is filcher?
Filcher is a noun.
What is the plural of filcher?
The plural of filcher is filchers.

Words near filcher in the dictionary

  1. filberts
  2. Filbin
  3. filch
  4. filch'd
  5. filched
  6. filcher
  7. filchers
  8. filchery
  9. filches
  10. filchi
  11. filching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filcher (page history and authors); filcher (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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