| 单词 |
filching |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ˈfilching, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb filch.
1567Drant Horace Epist. E viij b, Thy facte not lesse in this thy filchinge meanes. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 35 Avoyde filchinge and robbinge.
2. concr. That which is filched or stolen.
1834Lytton Pompeii iv. ii, By what reserved filchings from marketing..hast thou been enabled to make them serve thee? 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xlvi, To pay some call where she distributed her small filchings.
3. attrib. and Comb., as filching-sack, filching-trade.
a1592Greene James IV (1861) 192 The filching trade when time serves. 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Knights i. iii, I'll flay you for a filching-sack.
▪ II. ˈfilching, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That filches; pilfering.
1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. 54 To looke that no disorder be, nor any filching hande. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 151 Ah filching death, thou felonous bloodie thiefe. 1659Gentl. Calling (1660) 110 This filtching Devil, that thus steals from men their precious hours. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Filching-cove, a Man-thief. |
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