Word Meanings - PILFERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who pilfers; a petty thief.

Related words: (words related to PILFERER)

• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• THIEF
  thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
• THIEFLY
  Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• SEA THIEF
  A pirate. Drayton.
• WATER THIEF
  A pirate. Shak.