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filchers

filchers is the plural of filcher.

Meaning of filcher

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

Questions about filchers

What is filchers the plural of?
Filchers is the plural of filcher.

Words near filchers in the dictionary

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

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