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swindler

noun
/ˈswɪnd.lə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774.

  1. borrowed from Schwindler

Definitions

  1. A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.

    • But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.
    • There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.

  2. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA