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-…
aile: Gaunerei, gaunern, ergaunern
trickster, swindler
çekim: çoğul embaucadores
köken: From embaucar + -dor.
fraudster · impostor
çekim: çoğul bedragares · tamlayan bedragares
köken: bedraga + -are
conman, charlatan, fraudster, phoney, scammer, swindler, grifter · cheater
çekim: çoğul huijarit · tamlayan huijarin
köken: huijata + -ari
aile: huijarius, veijari, hevoshuijari, huijarisyndrooma, händärihuijari, korttihuijari, pörssihuijari
crook, swindler
çekim: çoğul escroci · tamlayan escrocului
köken: Borrowed from French escroc.
crook, rogue
çekim: çoğul friponoj
köken: Etymology tree French friponbor. Esperanto fripono Borrowed from French fripon.
aile: ĉeffripono