pilfer
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of pilfer
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive)To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
“pilfer goods”
“pilfer from a store”
“pilfer small items”
“The boy tried to pilfer sweets from the shop.”
“Office supplies often get pilfered by employees.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From earlier pilfre, from Middle English pilfre (“booty”), from Old French pelfre (“plunder, booty, spoils”), of unknown origin. Compare pelf.
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