filcher
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For years, reluctant sharers only had to fend off the occasional fry filcher, or the girlfriend who virtuously passes on dessert — and then plants her fork in her companion’s creme brulee.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2015
No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
He ne'er by any luck was grieved, By any care perplexed— No filcher he, though when he preached, He always "took" a text.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
His kneading tub and his pavin are the two misteries of his occupation and he is a filcher by his trade, but the miller is before him.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
Only the cry of a diving night-bird startled the stillness of the tranquil air; a rapacious filcher that quickly rose, and swept onward through the sea of night.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
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