cheatn.1
/tʃiːt/, U.S. /tʃit/ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [noun] > reversion to lord, king, or state > property which
escheatc1330
cheat1377
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 175 Þorw ȝoure lawe..I lese many chetes [C-text, menye escheytes].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 73 Chete for the lorde, caducum, confiscarium, fisca.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 193 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 227 Pylat gef tyberea to Iudas, & hyre gud alsa, aschet.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 140 a It is called Marchett, as it were a chete or fine for mariage.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. lvi. 161 It is nonsence for a Conquerour to entitle himselfe by a cheat, where he hath an elder title, by conquest.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder
reifOE
fang1016
fengc1175
purchasec1325
predec1330
robberyc1330
robbingsc1330
spoila1340
spoila1382
chevisance1393
waitha1400
fee14..
pilferc1400
pelfa1425
spreathc1425
butinc1450
emprisec1450
gain1473
despoil1474
pelfry?a1475
pilfery1489
spulyie1507
cheat1566
bootinga1572
booty1574
escheat1587
boot1598
exuvial1632
bootyn1635
polling1675
expilation1715
prog1727
swag1794
filch1798
spreaghery1814
stake1819
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse xx. f. 41 Hauing lost three of our souldiours we are come home with these present cheates.
1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3v A Cunning villaine..had long time haunted this Cittizens house, and gotten many a cheat which he carried awaye safely.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. xx. 444 The taking off these vessels was not the best and goodliest cheate of their victorie.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 144 They suppose, that a cheat or booty is sent unto them from God as his gift.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object
thingOE
bodya1398
objecta1398
substance1525
cheat1567
solidity1604
article1618
material objecta1651
res extensa1652
extensum1678
businessa1684
animal1729
materiate1755
affair1763
thingy1787
fellow1816
concern1824
jockey1827
toy1895
yoke1910
doojigger1927
bitch1951
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
stop-dice1540
bar1545
flat1545
gourd1545
barred dicec1555
bristle-dicec1555
fulhamc1555
graviersc1555
high manc1555
langretc1555
low manc1555
cheat1567
dice of vantage?1577
demy1591
forger1591
squarier1592
tallmen?1592
stop cater trey1605
demi-bar1606
downhill1664
high runner1670
low runner1670
doctor1688
tat1688
uphill1699
cut1711
loaded dice1771
dispatcher1798
dispatch1819
miss-out1928
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiv A smeling chete, a nose, a pratlynge chete, a tounge..a belly chete, an apern,..a grunting chet, a pyg..hanginge chattes, the gallowes.
1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. F Cheates, which word is vsed generally for things, as Tip me that Cheate, Giue me that thing..and so treyning cheate is as much to say, hanging things, or the Gallous.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 27 With Dye and drab, I purchas'd this Caparison, and my Reuennew is the silly Cheate. Gallowes, and Knocke, are too powerfull on the Highway. View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3 Hig. But what's the action we are for now? ha? Robbing a Ripper of his fish?..Prig. Or cackling cheates? Hig. Or mergery praters, Rogers, And Tibs o'th the Buttery?
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll4/1 To mand on the pad, and strike all the cheates... [interpreted as] To beg on the way, to rob all thou meetes.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. §68 Cheat, a stollen thing; but the word cheat joined to others hath then a variable signification.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Crashing-cheats, teeth; [so 1725 New Canting Dict.]
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. ii, in Misc. III. 298 See what your Laziness is come to.—To the Cheat, for thither you will go now, that's infallible.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xii. 321 A make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.
a. The action of cheating or defrauding; deception, fraud. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving
swikingc1000
blindfolding?c1225
deceivancec1330
trechettingc1330
jugglingc1380
beguilingc1400
deceivingc1400
fagec1400
delusionc1420
sophisticationc1450
circumvention1534
illudinga1547
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
crossing1592
tricking1595
wiling?a1600
circumventing1603
practice1622
cheat1641
deluding1645
underdealing1649
amusement1658
conveyancing1676
bubbling1700
jockeyshipa1763
overreachinga1774
jockeying1779
beguilement1805
gaggery1819
trickstering1821
Jewing1842
wool-pulling1843
rigging1846
hoodwinking1858
old soldierism1866
old soldiering1867
fiddling1884
gold-bricking1901
wangling1911
finagling1926
hyping1968
1641 J. Milton Animadversions Pref. 3 A false Prophet taken in the..most dangerous cheat, the cheat of soules.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 65 For what does vast Wealth bring, but cheat.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 241 'Tis plain cheat and abuse, when I make them [sc. words] stand sometimes for one thing, and sometimes for another.
1696 G. Stanhope tr. Thomas à Kempis Christian's Pattern (1711) 179 The boasted pleasures of sensual..men are only..vanity and cheat.
b. A fraud, deception, trick, imposition. to put a cheat on: to deceive, impose upon (archaic).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]
deceivec1330
defraud1362
falsec1374
abuse?a1439
fraud1563
visure1570
cozen1583
coney-catch1592
to fetch in1592
cheat1597
sell1607
mountebanka1616
dabc1616
nigglea1625
to put it on1625
shuffle1627
cuckold1644
to put a cheat on1649
tonya1652
fourbe1654
imposturea1659
impose1662
slur1664
knap1665
to pass upon (also on)1673
snub1694
ferret1699
nab1706
shool1745
humbug1750
gag1777
gudgeon1787
kid1811
bronze1817
honeyfuggle1829
Yankee1837
middle1863
fuck1866
fake1867
skunk1867
dead-beat1888
gold-brick1893
slicker1897
screw1900
to play it1901
to do in1906
game1907
gaff1934
scalp1939
sucker1939
sheg1943
swizz1961
butt-fuck1979
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of
braida1000
fraudc1374
mock1523
brogue1537
flim-flamc1538
imposture1548
lie1560
cozening1576
smoke-hole1580
gullery1598
gull1600
cog1602
coggery1602
fraudulency1630
imposition1632
cheat1649
fourbery1650
prestige1656
sham1677
crimp1684
bite1711
humbug1750
swindle1778
hookum-snivey1781
shim-sham1797
gag1805
intake1808
racket1819
wooden nutmeg1822
sell1838
caper1851
skin game1879
Kaffir bargain1899
swizzle1913
swizz1915
put-on1919
ready-up1924
rort1926
jack-up1945
1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 28 Which have no cloak or cheat of Religion to impose upon themselves or others.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. vii. 18 The Gibeonites (who put a new cheat on the Israelites).
1690 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 293 Those who live by cheats and quirks.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 43 Which cheat we saw them actually impose upon some other Travellors.
1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) I. lxvii. 81 He..had been noted for several cheats and even thefts.
1828 C. Lamb Capt. Jackson in Elia 2nd Ser. 196 For a man to put the cheat upon himself.
1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 223 He insisted that the institution of the priesthood was a cheat.
c. Cinematography. (See quots. and cf. cheat v. 7). Also cheat shot.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > shot > [noun] > types of
long shot1858
glass shot1908
close-up1913
aerial shot1920
angle shot1922
medium shot1925
far-away1926
travelling shot1927
zoom1930
zoom shot1930
process shot1931
close-medium shot1933
medium close-up1933
reverse angle1933
reverse shot1934
three-shot1934
tilt shot1934
medium-close shot1937
reaction shot1937
tracking shot1940
pan shot1941
stock shot1941
Dutch angle1947
cheat shot1948
establishing shot1948
master-scene1948
trucking shot1948
two-shot1949
bridging shot1951
body shot1952
library shot1953
master shot1953
mid shot1953
MS1953
pullback1957
MCU1959
noddy1982
arc shot1989
pop shot1993
1948 E. Lindgren Art of Film ii. v. 73 This procedure of concealing part of the action necessary to the taking of a shot by excluding it from the camera's field of view is known..as ‘cheating’, and the shot as a ‘cheat shot’.
1960 Consumer Rep. Jan. 10/2 A phony picture used in a commercial (known in the trade as a cheat shot).
5. Applied to a person.† d. attributive (Obsolete rare.)
a. In the following early instance, the sense is uncertain: it may be = cheater n. 4, persons used as decoy.
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1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Ld. Hastynges sig. N.i [Ld. Hastings says] Shore's wife was my nyce cheate, The wholye whore, and eke the wyly peate.
b. One who cheats; a swindler.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives
swikec1000
wielerOE
adderOE
knavec1275
treacherc1290
guiler1303
gabbera1325
tricharda1327
faitoura1340
jugglera1340
beswiker1340
wernard1362
knackerc1380
beguilera1382
deceiver1382
illusor1382
deceivant1393
fob1393
falsea1400
mocker?c1450
feature14..
deceptor1484
seductor1490
bullera1500
troker?a1500
craftera1529
circumventorc1540
bobber1542
cloyner?1550
illuder?1550
tricker1550
double-dealer1567
treacherer1571
falsary1573
abuser1579
falser1579
treachetour1590
deluder1592
ignis fatuus1592
foolmonger1593
prestigiator1595
aguiler1598
baffler1606
cog-foist1606
feaguer1610
guile-man1614
hocus-pocus1624
colt1632
hoodwink1638
blindfoldera1649
napper1653
cheat1664
fooler1677
underdealer1682
circumvenerc1686
chincher1688
dodger1698
nickum1699
sheep-shearer1699
trickster1711
bilker1717
trickologist1723
taker-in1776
bilk1790
duper1792
Yorkshire bite1801
intake1808
gammoner1819
doer1840
delusionist1841
fiddler1857
snide1874
hoodwinker1884
tanger1886
take-down1888
tiddlywinker1893
wangler1912
frost1914
twicer1924
lurkman1945
jive-ass1964
skanker1973
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 23 Cheats, to play with those still aime, That do not understand the Game.
1671 Head & Kirkman (title) The English Rogue Described..a complete History of the most Eminent Cheats of both sexes.
1841 R. W. Emerson Compensation in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 114 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. viii. xxviii. 559 Corinth..was a city of extortioners and cheats.
c. A deceiver, an impostor.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]
shondc725
faitoura1340
fob1393
trumper?c1450
feature14..
chuffera1500
prowler1519
truphane1568
cozener1575
cogger1580
pretender1583
impostor1586
mountebank1589
sycophant?1589
foolmonger1593
affronter1598
assumer1600
knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602
pettifogger1602
budgeter1603
quacksalver1611
empiric1614
putter-off?1615
quack1638
stafador1638
saltimbanco1646
adventurer1648
fourbe1668
shammer1677
imposer1678
charlatana1680
sham1683
cheat1687
hocus1692
gull1699
shamster1716
coal-blower1720
humbugger1752
gagger1781
fudge1794
humbug1804
potwalloper1820
twister1834
jackleg1844
fraud1850
bunyip1852
empiricist1854
Bayswater Captain1880
bluffer1888
putter-down1906
quandong1939
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 80 Own yourself and the rest of your sisterhood to be cheats.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 546. ⁋1 I should think myself a cheat in my way, if I should translate any thing from another tongue, and not acknowledge it.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. v, in Maud & Other Poems 26 If she were not a cheat, If Maud were all that she seem'd.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective] > of author
cheat1582
false1868
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aij As for..Horace, Iuuenal, Persius and thee rablement of such cheate Poëtes.
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c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Biiii Callinge them selues Chetors, and the dice chetes [printed Cheters], borowing the terme from among our lawers, with whom all such casuals as fall vnto the Lord at the holding his lets, as waifs, straies & such like bee called chetes.
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Ciiiv Haue in a redines to be roisted in when time shalbe, your fine chetes of all sorts.
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Cviv I shall lend you a payre of the same sise that his chetes be.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > waistcoat > types of
stomacherc1450
wyliecoat1478
waistcoat1585
cheat1688
linder1768
sleeve-waistcoat1825
shawl-waistcoat1840
bawneen1910
slip1933
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 96/1 A..kind of Waistcoats are called Chates, because they are to be seen rich and gaudy before, when all the back part is no such thing.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 258/1 Such Gallants wear not Cheats or half Sleeves, but..their Wastcoats are the same clear throughout.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cheats,..also Wristbands or sham Sleeves worn for true, or whole ones.
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8. A card game, the point of which is to cheat without detection, and to detect cheating in others, failure in either attempt involving a forfeit.
9. A name given locally to certain grasses ‘from resemblance to the grain among which they grow’. Britten and Holland name Darnel ( Lolium temulentum), Corn Brome ( Bromus secalinus), and ‘Wild Oats’.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass
windlestrawc1000
shear-grass1483
risp1508
sweet-grass1577
star grass1687
reesk1735
bluegrass1751
cheat1784
spear-grass1784
white top1803
prairie grass1812
elephant grass1832
ryegrass1845
wool-grass1854
snow-grass1865
quick1896
1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 121 My fields consisted entirely of fine healthful clean wheat, without a single head of darnel or cheat.
1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 71 The first [sc. wheat], besides having a small head generally, was mixed exceedingly with cheat.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 455 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI Cheat is nothing more nor less than degenerated wheat.
1856 P. Thompson Hist. Boston 701 Cheat, the wild oat.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 351 ‘Chess’, or ‘cheat’ as it is sometimes called is a species of grass.
1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 865 Bromus secalinus, cheat, chess, is a foreign annual weed.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 39 The field is very full of cheats to-year.
Draft additions April 2002
cheat sheet n. slang (chiefly U.S.) a piece of paper bearing notes or instructions as an aid to memory, esp. when used surreptitiously by a student in an examination, etc.; a crib; also in extended use.
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1935 G. Barker Janus i. 29 Which, sewn upon the cheat-sheet of life, divert from cosmic legerdemain our obvious knowledge: that this face too must die.
1960 M. A. Felder Collegiate Slang 1 Cheat sheet, any written material used to cheat in a test.
1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 58/2 Using a fake ID to buy wine or beer. Taking a cheat sheet into a test.
2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 12 May During a recent Labour Party night out..songsheets had to be provided for old Lefty classics such as Bandiera Rossa. Curiously, when this song is sung at SNP soirees no-one needs a cheat sheet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† cheatn.2
Obsolete.
Wheaten bread of the second quality, made of flour more coarsely sifted than that used for manchet n., the finest quality. Also in combinations cheat-bread, cheat-loaf.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > second-quality bread
cocketc1390
yeoman bread1430
cheatc1450
alms-bread1600
c1450 Bk. Curtasye iii. 452 Manchet and chet bred he shalle take.
1461–83 Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 69 To make continually of every busshell halfe chiete halfe rounde..xxvij loves.
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 163 One chet loafe, one manchet, one gallon of ale.
1570 T. Wilson in tr. Demosthenes 3 Orations Ep. Ded. sig. *v Lyke to them that eating fine Manchet, are angry with others that feede on Cheate breade.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 26v The second called Siligo, they vsed in their fynest Cheate.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 154 The second [kind of bread] is the cheat or wheaton bread, so named bicause the coloure therof resembleth the graie or yellowish wheat.
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Βατραχομυομαχια in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 3 Their purest cheat, Thrice boulted, kneaded, and subdu'd in past.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxv. 241 Our finest Manchet is made without Leaven, which maketh Cheate Bread to be the lighter..and also the more wholesome.
1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. ii. 60 Four different kinds of wheaten bread, the finest called Manchet, the second Cheat, or trencher bread.
1861 Our Eng. Home 79. ]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
cheatv.
/tʃiːt/, U.S. /tʃit/ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > confiscate or sequestrate to state
forfeitc1384
cheatc1440
confisk1474
sequestera1513
confiscatea1533
publish1533
sequestrate1640
inbring1752
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 73 Chetyn, confiscor, fisco.
2. To defraud; to deprive of by deceit.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]
deceivec1330
defraud1362
falsec1374
abuse?a1439
fraud1563
visure1570
cozen1583
coney-catch1592
to fetch in1592
cheat1597
sell1607
mountebanka1616
dabc1616
nigglea1625
to put it on1625
shuffle1627
cuckold1644
to put a cheat on1649
tonya1652
fourbe1654
imposturea1659
impose1662
slur1664
knap1665
to pass upon (also on)1673
snub1694
ferret1699
nab1706
shool1745
humbug1750
gag1777
gudgeon1787
kid1811
bronze1817
honeyfuggle1829
Yankee1837
middle1863
fuck1866
fake1867
skunk1867
dead-beat1888
gold-brick1893
slicker1897
screw1900
to play it1901
to do in1906
game1907
gaff1934
scalp1939
sucker1939
sheg1943
swizz1961
butt-fuck1979
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something
beguile1394
wrongc1484
delude1493
licka1500
to wipe a person's nose1577
uncle1585
cheat1597
cozen1602
to bob of1605
to bob out of1605
gull1612
foola1616
to set in the nick1616
to worm (a person) out of1617
shuffle1627
to baffle out of1652
chouse1654
trepan1662
bubble1668
trick1698
to bamboozle out of1705
fling1749
jockey1772
swindle1780
twiddle1825
to diddle out of1829
nig1829
to chisel out of1848
to beat out1851
nobble1852
duff1863
flim-flam1890
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 19 Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iii. 78.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cheate, to cousin, to deceiue.
1679 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 68 I am unwilling a rogue should cheat me of 5l.
1821 J. Baillie Lady G. Baillie in Metrical Legends ix. 6 The Scaffold of its prey to cheat.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 71 If they were to be cheated of their right.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 278 You are lazy and mean to cheat us out of the best part of the story.
3.
a. To deceive, impose upon, trick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
aschrenchc885
blendc888
swikec950
belirtOE
beswike971
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blenka1000
belieOE
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trokec1175
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guile?c1225
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hoodwink1610
intrigue1612
guggle1617
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nose-wipe1628
cog1629
cheat1637
flam1637
nurse1639
jilt1660
top1663
chaldese1664
bilk1672
bejuggle1680
nuzzlec1680
snub1694
bite1709
nebus1712
fugle1719
to take in1740
have?1780
quirk1791
rum1812
rattlesnake1818
chicane1835
to suck in1842
mogue1854
blinker1865
to have on1867
mag1869
sleight1876
bumfuzzle1878
swop1890
wool1890
spruce1917
jive1928
shit1934
smokescreen1950
dick1964
1637 J. Milton Comus 6 To cheate the eye with bleare illusion.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 52 All Fanatics cheat themselves with Words, mistaking them for Things.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 79 They would not by any means cheat and impose upon them.
1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (new ed.) II. 386 Let us cheat ourselves, if it be a cheat, with this fancy.
b. To lead into (an action) by deception.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > induce by deception
cozen1599
flim-flam1660
cheat1856
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 264 He..could not but find..himself cheated into cordial admiration, by the splendour of the verses.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. x. 276 They had tried to cheat her into sleeping.
4. intransitive.
a. To deal fraudulently, practise deceit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)]
to pull a finchc1386
to bore a person's nose?1577
to wipe a person's nose1577
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lurch1593
to grope a gull1594
cheat1647
to lick (another's) fingers1656
to live upon the shark1694
sharp1709
fineer1765
to pluck a pigeon1769
swindle1769
to run a game1894
to sell (a person) a pup1901
scam1963
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)]
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defraudc1384
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chicane1671
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finagle1926
1647 A. Cowley Discov. in Mistress iv He would cheat for his relief.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xx. 126 Cleon..cou'd cheat at cards.
1889 N.E.D. at Cheat Mod. Accused of cheating in an examination.
b. to cheat on: to be sexually unfaithful to (one's spouse). Also without on. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be unfaithful
to fool around1923
to cheat on1934
two-time1975
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > unchaste [verb (transitive)] > be unfaithful to
two-time1924
to cheat on1934
to run around1951
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra vi. 159 A woman married a louse that beat her and cheated on her.
1942 R. Chandler High Window xxx. 197 Eight months married and cheating on me with a piece of merchandise like that.
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh ii. 107 D'yuh suppose dat he did catch his wife cheatin'? I don't mean wid no iceman, but wid some guy.
1959 E. O'Neill Hughie 28 Come to figger it, I'll bet he even cheated on his wife that way.
1967 ‘E. Lindall’ Time too Soon vii. 81 He's only committing a normal infidelity. Tell me…who do you know who doesn't cheat, given the opportunity?
1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin iii. 47 My husband wouldn't have the nerve to cheat on me if you brought him all the girls in the Christmas number of Playboy asleep on a chair.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. iv. 209 Husbands always told their wives to go out and buy things when they were cheating.
1986 New Yorker 7 Apr. 36/2 Vincent has never cheated on his wife.
5. transitive. To beguile (weariness, tedium, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > [verb (transitive)] > beguile (tedium, weariness, etc.)
cheat1712
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 406. ⁋6 No Lay unsung to cheat the tedious Way.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. iv. 7 The tuneless rhyme With which the warder cheats the time.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xi. 172 Devices by which the ladies..were wont to cheat fatigue.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > obtain fraudulently
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slip1890
finagle1926
skuldug1936
swizz1961
1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 13 Making Restitution of Thousands he has cheated.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. vi. 11 Something, which for your Honour they may cheat.
7. transitive and intransitive. Cinematography. To suppress or adapt (part of a film) during editing so as to create a desired illusion. Cf. cheat n.1 4c.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > edit [verb (transitive)]
re-edit1785
cut1913
edit1913
to cut in1928
cheat1929
cross-cut1933
intercut1953
1929 I. Montagu tr. V. I. Pudovkin On Film Technique vi. 192 Any movement or object outside the picture-frame or otherwise unremarked is said to be ‘cheated’.
1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft ii. 72 Get as close as you can in order to reveal your characters..in some detail... You can..‘cheat’ them nearer—that is, bring them closer together and photograph them at a slightly different angle from the previous scene.
1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft ii. 72 You may have two characters by a settee in the centre foreground... For the second shot you can ‘cheat’ the settee nearer the door in order to facilitate or expedite your characters' progress.
Derivatives
cheated adj.
ΚΠ
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production xviii. 347 The cheated substitute provides interesting possibilities. Here a series of representative parts are intercut to convey a composite impression.
cheating n.
ΚΠ
1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft ii. 72 ‘Cheating’ does not only apply to the position of characters, but to the position of the furniture and other objects in your sets.
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