Swindler

Definition: Swindler

Swindler

Noun

1. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swindler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Swindler \Swin"dler\, noun. [from German expression schwindler, from schwindlen to be dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, from schwindel dizziness, from schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle. See Swim to be dizzy.]. (Websters 1913)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swindler

Deceiver

Conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy, decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler; (thief); jobber.

Thief

Swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.

Crosswords: Swindler

Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler! (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

You're a cheat and a swindler! How could you do a thing like this, raise up a little boy's hopes and then dash all his dreams to pieces? (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

The Female Swindler (1916)

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Books

• Kreuger, Genius and Swindler (reference)

• Ponzi!: The Boston Swindler (reference)

• Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America (reference)

• The rise and fall of Horatio Bottomley: the biography of a swindler (reference)

• The Swindler, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The swindler is not accepted as a wit.

For the rest, a great swindler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "swindler": no better than a swindler ♦ notorious swindler. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afsetter (extortioner). (various references)

Albanian

mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, trickster, twister, two-tongued), batakçiu. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشعوذ (charlatan, conjuror, juggler, quack, voodoo), ‏المحتال (artist, bluffer, cheat, crook, dodger, impostor, juggler, kite, knave, queue jumper, rook, shark, sharper, skin), ‏النصاب (impostor, shark, sharper, skin), ‏الغشاش (cheat, sharper). (various references)

Bulgarian 

измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker). (various references)

Chinese 

骗子 (Cheater, Crook, Crooks, Deceiver, Hustler), 騙子 (cheater). (various references)

Czech

podvodník (cheat, con man, confidence trickster, conman, crook, deceiver, dodger, fake, fiddler, fraud, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, racketeer, rascal, runner, shark, sharper, trickster). (various references)

Danish

ophavsmand til bedragerier (crook, fraud), bedrager (crook, fraud). (various references)

Dutch

knoeier (crook, fraud), fraudeur (crook, fraud, intruder, penetrator, perpetrator, violator), afzetter (extortioner). (various references)

Esperanto

preztrompisto (extortioner). (various references)

Farsi 

متقلب (Dishonest, Gyp, Shark), کلاه گذار, کلاه بردار (Crook), قاچاق (Contraband, Illicit), گول زن (Skinner, Trickster), گوش بر. (various references)

Finnish

petkuttaja (cheat, impostor), huijari (cheat). (various references)

French

escroc. (various references)

German

Schwindler (bilker, con man, confidence trickster, dodger, fake, faker, fibber, fiddler, finagler, finaglers, fraud, frauds, goldbricker, impostor, juggler, liar, masquerader, phoney, phony, shark, slicker), Betrüger (beguiler, beguilers, cheat, cheater, con man, deceiver, defrauder, diddler, fiddler, impersonator, impostor, impostors, liar, peculator, peculators, rook, trickster). (various references)

Greek 

αγύρτησ (charlatan, fortune teller, hoodwinker, humbug, impostor, mountebank, mumper, quack, rogue), απατεώνασ (beguiler, bilk, bilker, blackleg, cheat, crook, fraud, hoodwinker, imposture, jockey, knave), απατεών (circumventer, circumventor, cozener, crook, deceiver, faker, fraud, hoodwinker, jockey, knave, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, shaver, slicker, tricker, trickster, victimizer, welcher, welsher). (various references)

Hebrew 

רמאי (cheat, cheater, cheating, deceiver, duper, fraudulent, humbug, impostor, mountebank, ringer, rogue, scoundrel, sharper, sneaky, trickster). (various references)

Hungarian

csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, trickster), szélhámos (bilker, cheat, chiseler, con man, confidence man, fake, fiddler, fraud, gouge, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, mountebank, phoney, phony, rogue, rooky, shark, sharper, trickster), svindler (card sharper, dodger, fiddler, hawk, pointer, rogue, skin, spoofer). (various references)

Italian

lestofante (chiseler, chiselers, con man, crook, toughs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詐欺師 (crook, imposter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぺて�"し (crook, imposter), ぽ�"びき (con-man, pimp, tout), ぽ�"ぴき (con-man, pimp, tout), さぎし (crook, imposter), ふとくか�" (crook), いかさまし (cheat). (various references)

Korean 

사기꾼 (Blackmailer, Deceiver, gouger, Hustler). (various references)

Manx

kialgeyr (cheat, con man, deceitful person, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fly boy, hypocrite, illusionist, plotter, schemer, trickster, twister). (various references)

Pig Latin

indlersway

Portuguese

vigarista (adventurer, bilk, biter, black list, cheat, pettifogger, pettifogging, sharp, sharper, slicker, trickster), trapaceiro (bribetaker, censorious, cheat, corndodger, crook, dodger, duffer, grafter, gyp, hoe-cake, pettifogger, pettifogging, rogue, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, sharper, shuffler, slicker, trickster, tricky), trapaceador, intrujão (crook, juggler, liar, mendacious, rogue, shark, sharp, sharper, sklent, trickster), impostor (charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, hocus, humbug, imposter, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, quack, quacksalver, sham, shammer, shyster, trickster), escroque (mobster, racketeer, rook, shark, sharp, sharper, trickster), burlista (mocker, scoffer). (various references)

Romanian

pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, thief), potlogar (rogue), pezevenchi (cheat, knave), farsor (cheat, humbug, sham), escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap), coţcar (rogue). (various references)

Russian 

мошенник (bad egg, bad hat, bad lot, bilker, bunco-steerer, cheater, chevalier of fortune, chevalier of industry, confidence man, fleabag, fraudster, grafter, gyp, hoaxer, impostor, knave, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, ratbag, sham, sharpy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

varalica (charlatan, chouse, crook, double-dealer, fake, fraud, gyp, impostor, jack-in-the-box, mountebank, sharper, trickster, wheeler dealer). (various references)

Spanish

estafador (cheat, crook, gyp, hustler, racketeer, shark, sharp, sharper, Skinner, twister). (various references)

Swedish

svindlare (defrauder, jackal, sharper, twister), skojare (cheat, crook, dodger, gyp, humbug, imposter, impostor, joker, juggler, kidder, knave, operator, rascal, rogue, scallywag, scamp, sham, shark, son of a gun, trickster). (various references)

Thai

คนหลอกลวง (mountebank). (various references)

Turkish

kazıkçı (extortioner, extortionist, trickster), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, Twicer), dalavereci (Abraham, guileful, intriguer, intriguing, sharper, shyster, trickster), üçkâğıtçı (blackleg, cheat, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, grifter, guileful, humbug, knave, knavish, sharper, trickish, trickster, tricksy, tricky, wangler). (various references)

Turkmen 

kezzap (cheat). (various references)

Ukrainian

шахрай (beat, bilker, charlatan, cheat, deceiver, doer, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, prick, racketeer, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharp, sharper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẻ lừa đảo (bunco-steerer, diddler, greek). (various references)

Schwindler. (various references)

swintilon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swindler": swindlers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swindler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shindler, swindel, swintle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rewinds, swindle, swirled, wilders, winders, windles.

-2 letters: diners, dwines, idlers, liners, rewind, rewins, rinsed, sidler, slider, snider, weirds, widens, wields, wilder, winder, windle.

-3 letters: deils, delis, diner, dines, dirls, dries, dwine, idler, idles, isled, lends, lenis, lewis, liens, liers, lined, liner, lines, lweis, nerds, nides, reins, rends, resid, resin, rewin, rides, riels, riled.

+1 letter: swindlers.

+2 letters: indwellers, wilderness.

+3 letters: brownfields, downhillers, mindblowers, wilderments, windflowers, windlestraw, worldliness.

+4 letters: bowdlerising, cowardliness, towardliness, wildernesses, windlestraws.

+5 letters: bewilderments, landownership, unworldliness, worldlinesses.