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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-87/
- Published: 2020-04-22T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-22T10:28:55.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

filch (verb) – To take (something, especially something of little value) in a furtive manner; snitch.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/filch?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer—he kept not time.” So says Falstaff in William Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Bard was fond of filch in both its literal and figurative uses; Iago, for example, says to Othello, “But he that filches from me my good name / Robs me of that which not enriches him / And makes me poor indeed.” Filch derives from the Middle English word filchen (“to attack” or “to steal”) and perhaps from Old English gefylce (“band of men, troop, army”). As a noun, filch once referred to a hooked staff used by thieves to snatch articles out of windows and from similar places, but this use is now obsolete.

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