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单词 short-change
释义

short-changev.

Etymology: < short change: see short adj. 15a.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: short-ˈchange.
Originally U.S.
transitive. To rob by giving insufficient change. Also figurative, to deprive (a person) of his due; to cheat, deceive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > by giving short change or weight
short-change1903
short-weight1932
1903 G. Ade People you Know 30 Brad was out in the back Townships short-changing the Farmers.
1923 H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient xii. 308 A tourist is cheated and short-changed so often in the East [etc.].
1928 L. North Parasites 304 The girl at the cash-register short-changed him.
1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 14 Feb. 4/1 Henry C. Clausen..told Pearl Harbor investigators tonight that the Navy in the South Pacific was ‘short-changing’ the Army right up to the latter months of the war on the information it received from decoding Japanese messages.
1958 Photoplay Oct. 33/2 As a child, I felt that life had short-changed me.
1959 J. Braine Vodi vii. 108 He'd never bought a drink for a barmaid in his life; he said that..the bitches always short-changed you anyway.
1964 D. Francis Nerve i. 9 He probably shot himself because that whey-faced bitch short-changed him in bed.
1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 788 My mom and pop have worked fourteen hours a day, six days a week for more than fifty years... From birth to death they've been short-changed.

Derivatives

short-ˈchanged adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [adjective] > defrauded
choused1682
cheated1709
trepanned1824
ripped1971
short-changed1976
1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird i. 14 The cultural circuit for short-changed minorities.
short-ˈchanger n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > one who gives short change
hyper1914
short-changer1920
hype1926
note-layer1928
1920 C. R. Cooper Under Big Top 205 The gambling and the graft of the side shows, the short-changers in the ‘connection’, the constant form of Temptation ever beckoning!
short-ˈchanging n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > by giving short change
short-changing1914
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 41 Gyp,..the act of short-changing; a defrauding by substitution; an action that belies a professed sincerity.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 278 Short-changing in the stores.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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