bilkingn.
The action of cheating or ‘doing out’ of one's due.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]
defraudc1450
defraudationc1503
fraudingc1530
defrauding1548
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
versing1591
begeckc1600
sharking1602
shaving1606
rooking1635
defraudment1645
emunging1664
prowlerya1670
bilking1687
sharping1692
mace1742
fineering1765
swindling1769
highway robbery1777
macing1811
flat-catching1821
ramping1830
swindlery1833
rigging1846
diddlinga1849
suck-in1856
daylight robbery1863
cooking1873
bunco-steering1875
chousing1881
fiddling1884
verneukery1896
padding1900
verneukering1900
bobol1907
swizzle1913
ramp1915
swizz1915
chizzing1948
tweedling1975
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 77 A pack of vermin, bred up to..bilking of their landladies.
1756 Gray's-Inn Jrnl. 1 177 The..bilking of Waiters at Places of Entertainment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
bilkingadj.
Balking, disappointing, cheating.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [adjective]
disappointing1530
unsatisfactory1637
unsatisfying1656
uncontenting1698
bilking1732
anticlimactic1898
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > cheating
trifling?a1400
cogging1542
cheatingc1555
flim-flam1577
overreaching1579
cozening1583
fogging1585
circumventing1603
gulling1614
imposturing1618
chicaning1698
crimping1699
bilking1732
humbugging1752
imposinga1754
nailing1819
1732 H. Fielding Lottery ii. 25 Dear Madam, be not in such a Passion; I am no bilking younger Brother.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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