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schlenter, n. and a.|ˈʃlɛntə(r)|
Also schlanter, shlanter, shlenter, shlinter, sl-.
[Poss. ad. Afrikaans or Du. slenter knavery, trick.
The history of this word is obscure; the Austral. and N.Z. forms are possibly borrowed from S. Afr. English, but by what route is not clear.]
A. n.
1. Austral. and N.Z. colloq. A trick.
1864C. R. Thatcher Invercargill Minstrel 15 'Twas a ‘shlinter’ for the tenant one morning departed Without paying his rent. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 45 Slanter (or schlanter), a trick. ‘To run a schlanter’—to make no genuine effort to win a game. 1925A. Wright Boy from Bullarah 133 ‘A shlanter’ he bellowed. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 20 June 47/1 ‘You worked a schlenter on me, laddie,’ he said, grinning at me in the wings, ‘but you're forgiven.’ 1945N.Z. Geographer I. i. 24 Most [shearing] sheds have somebody articulate to voice their worries if any slinters are feared. 1959G. Slatter Gun in Hand xii. 166 Wilkinson..worked a slinter at the end. Ref shoulda penalised him. 1965F. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 70 (title) The greatest slanter in the history of the racing game.
2. S. Afr. Something counterfeit; spec. a counterfeit diamond.
1892J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity 263 A new branch of industry had started in Kimberley, the manufacture of ‘schlenter’ stones, a name given to diamonds made of glass. 1898Cape Argus (Weekly ed.) 16 Mar. 35 (Pettman), A small sack containing bars of gold or schlenter. 1937H. Klein Stage-Coach Dust x. 112 Schlenters were also useful to the individual digger to drop into the pans of their rotating washing machine, to test the honesty of their native boys; and they were also useful to a more unscrupulous class to ‘salt’ diamondless claims. 1946L. G. Green So Few are Free ix. 127 That is the trade in ‘schlenters’, bits of glass shaped roughly from bottle stoppers to resemble diamonds. They have none of the peculiar soapy feel of the geniune diamond, but they pass muster sometimes in a hurried deal at night. 1969J. M. White Land God made in Anger 131 Schlenters, or slenters, are false diamonds. The best Schlenters in South West are made from the marbles in the necks of the lemonade or mineral-water bottles that can be found in dozens at the old German diggings.
B. adj. Dishonest, crooked; pretended, counterfeit, fake. Austral., N.Z., and S. Afr. colloq.
1889Williams & Reeves Colonial Couplets 51 Broke! Broke! Broke! At the will of the C.J.C. For the slenter race with the favourite dead Will never come back to me. 1891A. de Brémont Gent. Digger viii. 99 ‘Of course,’ whispers the seller who had pushed his way to the side of the buyer, ‘this sale was only shlenter.’ 1900J. Scott Tales Colonial Turf 35 [These race-course rogues] can draw deductions so beautifully, piecing together imaginary ‘schlenter goes’, and ‘put-up jobs’ with the cleverness of a whole courtful..of lawyers. 1916C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke 55 The slanter game I'd played wiv my Doreen—..I seen wot made me feel fair rotten mean. 1924L. Cohen Reminiscences of Johannesburg & London viii. 166 Confidence men found customers in plenty for schlenter gold bricks and amalgam. 1932Zionist Record 25 Our courts employ schlenter as a word requiring no further definition, in the sense of fake when applied to mineral products. 1974Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 24 Nov. 4 What makes the event more gratifying still is the fact that they sold schlenter uranium. |