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To steal, to prig. (French, fourbi, “a Jew who conceals a trap;” fourber, “to cheat;” four, “a false pocket for concealing stolen goods.”)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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