thief

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who carries out a theft.
    — water-thieves and land-thieves
  2. One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
    — Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.
  3. A waster in the snuff of a candle. obsolete
    — But hear you, my Worthy Brethren: do not you, where you see a thief in the candle, call presently for an extinguisher[…]

词形变化

thieves plural theef alternative

词汇关系

近义词
abstractor appropriator bagger booster borrower cribber faker filcher flogger heister larcener larcenist liberator lifter misappropriator nicker pincher purloiner snitch stealer tea leaf thief thiever
上位词
grabber possessor seizer taker villain
下位词
burglar cat burglar mugger pickpocket robber bandit brigand burglaress cutpurse confidence trickster converter dacoit dragsman fraudster highwayman kleptomaniac looter pirate plunderer poacher porch pirate rustler snagger snatcher sneak thief swiper thiefess People abductor kidnapper Words & ideas plagiarist Vehicles carjacker hijacker jacker twocker Safes cracksman safebreaker safecracker Embezzlers embezzler peculator Petty thieves prig sheep-biter shoplifter sticky fingers With violence bank robber ravisher robberess With a pole angler hooker nuthook
衍生词
a fair booty makes many a thief comparison is the thief of joy cricket thief spider cyberthief horse thief horsethief joke thief joule thief liquor thief opportunity makes a thief opportunity makes the thief outfangthief oxygen thief palm thief panel thief police and thief procrastination is the thief of time sampling thief set a thief to catch a thief sneak thief spellthief stop thief thick as thieves thief ant thiefcraft thiefdom thiefess thiefhood thief in law thief in the night thief knot thiefless thieflike thiefly thiefness thief palm thiefproof thiefship thief-taker thief tube thiefwise thiefy thievish time thief Unithieves wage thief water-thief wheat thief wine thief
相关词
thieve deceiver steal theft

词源

From Middle English thef, theef, þef, from Old English þēof, from Proto-West Germanic *þeub, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.
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