petty thief, crook, racketeer · sly, cunning person
çekim: çoğul Gaunern · tamlayan Gauners
eş: Betrüger, Schwindler, Schlitzohr, Spitzbube
köken: From thieves’ cant (Rotwelsch) Jauner, Joner (“gambler, cardsharp”), attested ca. 1500 alongside the verb jonen. Further usually derived from Yiddish יוון (Yoven/Yovon, “Greece”), from Hebrew יָוָן (yāwān), because Greeks were said to be skilful cardsharps (compare French Grec in this sense). The anlaut is due to hypercorrection based on the widespread Central German pronunciation of initial g-…