Definitions for pilfer

pilfer pil·fer

Spelling: [pil-fer]
IPA: /ˈpɪl fər/

Pilfer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in pilfer (efilpr).

Definitions for pilfer

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to steal, especially in small quantities.

Origin of pilfer

1540-50; v. use of late Middle English pilfre booty Middle French pelfre. See pelf

Examples for pilfer

But Julius and his comrades continued to pilfer American secrets for years after the defeat of fascism.

If they win, they grab at booty; if they lose, they unhorse and pilfer their own side!

The movements of the red-haired girl were not those of one who sought to pilfer.

The canonesses claim that we pilfer their friends away from them.

I suspect he has a plot with his apprentices to pilfer a portion of the metal.

At all events, if she did pilfer, she was neither suspected nor discovered.

The women make baskets, beg, pilfer, or sift and grind corn.

I have been shown the best spots, and I pilfer as well as I can—that is all.

He had some sort of an idea that he might pilfer the hospitality of his enemies.

The central idea of this modern folly about the potato is that you must pilfer the root.

Word Value for pilfer
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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