Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who swindles; one who defrauds or makes a practice of defrauding others; a cheat; a rogue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Etymologies

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From German Schwindler.

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