gyp
Betekenis (Engels)
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- A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”)
Sinonieme
bunco game
bunko game
false pretence
positive fraud
jiggery pokery
decieve
fraud in fact
a college servant
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/d͡ʒɪp/
Etimologie (Engels)
Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh. Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.
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