Filch (verb)
fil-tch
Pilfer or steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way.
Middle English filchen to attack (in a body), take as booty, Old English fylcian to marshal (troops), draw (soldiers) up in battle array, derivative of gefylce band of men; akin to folk.
Example sentences
“He could have gotten away with things worse than helping me filch a sweet from his aunt, or a bit of harmless mischief.”
“Both major candidates are filching each others’ rhetoric and pandering.”
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