different between pilcher vs pilches

English

pilcher (plural pilchers)

Archaic form of pilchard.
- He that eats nothing but a red herring a-day shall ne'er be broiled for the devil's rasher: a pilcher, signor, a surdiny, an olive, that I may be a philosopher first, and immortal after.

pilch +? -er

pilcher (plural pilchers)

(obsolete) One who wears a pilch.
(obsolete) A scabbard, as of a sword.
- 1591-95, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, scene 1
  MERCUTIO: Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?

3. A term of abuse for a person considered worthless, contemptible, or insignificant.[1]

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