| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | loiter |
| Synonyms: | cheat, dawdle, gyp, jiggle, swindle |
| Main Entry: | connive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plot, scheme |
| Synonyms: | angle, be in cahoots with, cabal, cogitate, collude, conspire, contrive, cook up, devise, diddle, finagle, frame, frame up, intrigue, machinate, operate, promote, wangle, wire, work hand in glove |
| Notes: | one connives at something but conspires with somebody |
| Main Entry: | flimflam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive, swindle |
| Synonyms: | bilk, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, defraud, diddle, dupe*, fleece, fool, gip, gull, gyp, hose, pull a fast one, rip off, rook, sandbag, scam, shaft, steal, take for a ride, trick |
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick, mislead |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, bluff, cheat, chicane, con, deceive, delude, diddle, dupe, fake out, flimflam, fox*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, jive, juke, kid, lead on, make believe, outfox, play a trick on, play-act, pretend, put on, put one over on, scam*, snow*, spoof, suck in, take in*, trifle |
| Main Entry: | goof off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid work |
| Synonyms: | bum around, coast, diddle, dog it, doodle, drag one's feet, featherbed, fiddle around, fluff off, fool around, hang around, hang out, horse around, lollygag, mess around, monkey around, putz around, screw off, shirk, slack, take it easy |
| Main Entry: | loiter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hang around; stroll |
| Synonyms: | amble, dabble, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, drag, flag, fritter away, get no place fast, halt, hover, idle, lag, linger, loaf, loll, lounge, pass time, pause, poke, procrastinate, put off, ramble, saunter, shamble, shuffle, slacken, slough, tarry, trail, traipse, wait, waste time |
| Antonyms: | hurry, leave, rush, vamoose |
| Main Entry: | swindle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat, steal |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle, beat*, bilk, clip, con*, cozen, deceive, defraud, diddle, do*, dupe, extort, fleece, flimflam, fool, frame*, fudge, gouge, gull, hoodwink, overcharge, pluck, pull a fast one, put one over on, rip off, rook, run a game on, sandbag, scam, sell a bill of goods, set up, shaft, stiff*, sting*, sucker, take for a ride, take to the cleaners, trick, trim*, victimize |
| Antonyms: | donate, give |
| Concept: | Fool. |
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-nouns
fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais., child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop., oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony., bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead; numbskull, thickskull; lackbrain, shallowbrain; halfwit, lackwit; dunderpate; lunkhead [U.S.], sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham., un sot a triple etage, sot; jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche., dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy., greenhorn (dupe); dunce (ignoramus); lubber (bungler); madman., one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder; qui n'a pas invente la poudre; no conjuror.
-phrases
fortuna favet fatuis; les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangent; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent; stultorum plena sunt omnia [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | sage |
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