filcher

filch +‎ -er

filcher (plural filchers)

1. One who filches; a thief.
   • 1820 August, O'Rourke, Daniel, “An Epic Poem, in Six Cantos”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7, number 41, page 35:

     But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,

     The very plague and torment of his soul,

     The harbinger of battle and of strife,

     And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;

   • 1991, Sean Altman and David Yazbek (music), “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, performed by Rockapella:

     Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize

• filcher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913