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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 | |||
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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 |