单词 | swindlery |
释义 | swindleryn. The use of deception, trickery, etc., to obtain or take something, esp. money; fraudulent activity of this type; (also more generally) the duping, tricking, or deceiving of someone; lies, trickery; = swindling n.2 1.Recorded earliest in attributive use.Also as a personification (see e.g. quots. 1837 and 1869). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] defraudc1450 defraudationc1503 fraudingc1530 defrauding1548 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 versing1591 begeckc1600 sharking1602 shaving1606 rooking1635 defraudment1645 emunging1664 prowlerya1670 bilking1687 sharping1692 mace1742 fineering1765 swindling1769 highway robbery1777 macing1811 flat-catching1821 ramping1830 swindlery1833 rigging1846 diddlinga1849 suck-in1856 daylight robbery1863 cooking1873 bunco-steering1875 chousing1881 fiddling1884 verneukery1896 padding1900 verneukering1900 bobol1907 swizzle1913 ramp1915 swizz1915 chizzing1948 tweedling1975 1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 138/1 Had there been no sumptuary or adultery or swindlery Law-acts. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vi. 70 Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually. 1869 All Year Round 2 Jan. 109/2 Swindlery in doubtful boots, on the sharp look-out for any likely young gentleman. 1922 State Hosp. Q. Nov. 65 Under ‘social conflicts’ are included..maladjustment resulting in the arrest of twelve patients for vagrancy, assault and battery, forgery, swindlery or profiteering. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 36 The individual juvenile protagonist was far more venturesome and frequently exposed in his swindlery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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