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| nipper; sneak; Autolycus; ganef; purloiner; pilferer; juvenile thief; pack rat; petty burglar (dimock); little thieving man (CNN, 2021 Alex_Odeychuk); little thief (Taras); lumper; nibbler | |||
| lurcher | |||
| prag (var. on prig, Green's Dictionary of Slang Taras) | |||
| kiddy (обыкн. кричаще одетый); bulk | |||
| juvenile thief | |||
| sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well (Authorities in Germany are investigating a strange case wherein a sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well stole 80 goldfish from a man's backyard pond and then mysteriously returned the pilfered creatures a few days later. (coasttocoastam.com) • A nearly 25-year-old mystery surrounding a golden weathervane stolen from a French town has been resolved after the pilfered piece was returned by the remorseful thief behind the misguided caper. The weird case reportedly began back in April of 1999 when a sticky-fingered ne'er-do-well made off with the metallic depiction of a cockerel that had sat atop a cross in the small community of Bessan. (coasttocoastam.com) • A Sasquatch statue stolen from a front yard in Tennessee is back home where it belongs thanks to a dedicated individual who located and recovered the pilfered piece by way of a rather daring rescue. In late February, some sticky-fingered ne'er-do-wells made off with the 250-pound faux Bigfoot that had sat outside Jennifer Jordan's Memphis residence for the last seven years. (coasttocoastam.com) ART Vancouver) | |||
| petty thief; sneak-thief | |||
| picker | |||
| heaver; chiseler; creep; gofer; gofor; gopher; gonoph; prig | |||
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| pickers and stealers | |||
| pickers amt stealers | |||
| pack | |||
| воришка: 36 phrases in 12 subjects |
| Australian | 4 |
| British usage, not spelling | 1 |
| General | 11 |
| Informal | 3 |
| Law | 2 |
| Literature | 1 |
| Makarov | 2 |
| Obsolete / dated | 1 |
| Police | 1 |
| Proverb | 5 |
| Security systems | 1 |
| Slang | 4 |