Boys Pilfering Molasses, 1853 painting by George Henry Hall.
From Middle English pilfre (“booty”), from Old French pelfre (“plunder, booty, spoils”), of unknown origin. Compare pelf.
pilfer (third-person singular simple present pilfers, present participle pilfering, simple past and past participle pilfered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
to steal in small quantities
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: отмъквам (bg) (otmǎkvam), върша дребни кражби (vǎrša drebni kražbi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 扒竊／扒窃 (zh) (páqiè), 偷竊／偷窃 (zh) (tōuqiè), 小偷小摸 (zh) (xiǎotōuxiǎomō), 東偷西摸／东偷西摸 (dōngtōuxīmō), 偷雞摸狗／偷鸡摸狗 (zh) (tōujīmōgǒu)
- Czech: ukrádat, rozkrádat impf
- Dutch: stelen (nl), jatten (nl)
- Esperanto: ŝteleti
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: näpistää (fi), näpistellä (fi)
- French: piquer (fr), chaparder (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: klauen (de), stehlen (de), stibitzen (de), mopsen (de) (informal), abziehen (de) (juvenile), mausen (de) (rare), mitgehen lassen
- Hungarian: dézsmál (hu), lopkod (hu)
- Ingrian: näpissellä
- Italian: rubacchiare (it)
- Latin: surpō
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: kaiā
- Polish: podkradać (pl)
- Portuguese: surripiar (pt), surrupiar (pt)
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: ворова́ть (ru) impf (vorovátʹ), красть (ru) impf (krastʹ), таска́ть (ru) impf (taskátʹ), раста́скивать (ru) impf (rastáskivatʹ), разворо́вывать (ru) impf (razvoróvyvatʹ)
- Sanskrit: चोरयति (sa) (corayati)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: поткрадати
- Roman: potkradati (sh)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: sisar (es), ratear (es)
- Swedish: snatta (sv)
- Tagalog: mangupit, kumupit
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: chwiwladrata
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