verneukv.

Brit.

/vəˈnjuːk/,

/fəˈnjuːk/, U.S.

/vərˈn(j)uk/,

/fəˈn(j)uk/, South African English

/fəˈn(j)uːk/

Forms: Also vinook.

Etymology: < Cape Dutch verneuken (also in W. Flemish, with variant vernukken).

South African slang.

transitive. To cheat, humbug, swindle.

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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-

1871 Cape Monthly Mag. 3 46 How Hendrick enjoyed verneuking the Boer.

1905 D. Blackburn Richard Hartley xiii So you have verneuked me?

1909 R. Cullum Compact xviii. 213 He has vinooked the Kaffir chiefs into granting large concessions.

Derivatives

verˈneuker n.

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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

1905 D. Blackburn Richard Hartley xiii Do you take me for a Boer verneuker?

verˈneukering n.

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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

1900 J. Robinson Life Time S. Afr. vii. 185 Hence arose the practice of ‘verneukering’—by which buyer and seller each sought to get the better of the other.

verˈneukery n. [ < Cape Dutch verneukerie]

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