Dictionary

swindler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈswɪnd.lə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774.

Meanings

1. A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
   • 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. 2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times:
   • But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him. 1908, The Scrap Book: Second Section, volume V, page 637:

Forms

Deriveds

swindlership

Synonyms

goldbrick · liar · Scandaroon · Spanish athlete · chiseler · bouncer · deceptor · trucker · swike · fabulist · guiler · swindler · fraud · cheater · cogger · crammer · grifter · jackal · cheat · grifter · humbug · schemester · cheat · scammer · bamboozler · trickster · cozener · trapan · rook · wernard · fraudmeister · trepan · cony-catcher · bunco-steerer · rook · landshark · swindler · defrauder · fraudster · sharper · fabricator · gabber · shammer · deceiver · mocker · pickpenny · treacher · gull · spieler · scamp · cheater · bullshitter · gyp · fleecer · pseudologist · Scandaroon · falser · losenger · finagler · charlatan · slicker

Translations (79)

ru жу́лик (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · mr ठग (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · id pecundang (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · pl szuler (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · es chapucero (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · id penipu (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · es estafador (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · pt caloteiro (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · es trapacero (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · pdt Schwindla (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cy twyllwraig (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · grc φέναξ (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · hi ठग (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · mk трчилаж (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · eo fikomercisto (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · pl oszust (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · fr escroc (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · de Schwindlerin (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · mk измамник (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ru афери́ст (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ca estafador (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · nrf aigrefîn (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ar مُحْتَال (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · fr margoulin (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · de Gaunerin (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · lad dalaveradji (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · de Betrüger (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · lad batakchi (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · it gabbatore (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cs švindlíř (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · sv svindlare (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ru моше́нник (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · gl moinante (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ru афери́стка (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cs šejdíř (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · it defraudatore (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · gl caloteiro (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · hu szédelgő (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · de Betrügerin (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · de Gauner (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · mi kaitāware (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · fi huijari (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · kmr xapîner (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · it truffatore (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · tr dolandırıcı (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · hu csaló (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · de Schwindler (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · lad kazikchi (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · es engañabobos (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · hu svindler (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · fr aigrefin (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · az fırıldaqçı (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · it ciarlatano (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · kmr hîleker (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · nl zwendelaarster (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · yi שווינדלער (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · id bajingan (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ru моше́нница (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · nl zwendelaar (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · mr उपटणारा (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ja 詐欺師 (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · kk алаяқ (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · tl balasubas (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · el κομπιναδόρος (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · gl estafador (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · hu szélhámos (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · la fraudātor (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · it ingannatore (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · pt estelionatário (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · lad dolandiridji (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cmn 騙子 /骗子 (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · sw mlaghai (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cmn 江湖騙子 /江湖骗子 (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cy twyllwr (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · ca estafadora (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · es defraudador (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · mr उपट्या (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · cs podvodník (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds) · fi petkuttaja (person who swindles, cheats or defrauds)