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单词 skelder
释义

skelderv.

Etymology: A cant term of obscure origin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskelder.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
1. intransitive. To beg; to live by begging, esp. by passing oneself off as a wounded or disbanded soldier.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]
thigc1300
begc1384
crave1393
to go a-begged1393
prowl1530
to go (or have been) a begging1535
maund?1536
to bear the wallet1546
cant1567
prog1579
to turn to bag and wallet1582
skelder1602
maunder1611
strike1618
emendicate1623
mendicate1623
to go a-gooding1646
mump1685
shool1736
cadge1819
to stand pad1841
stag1860
bum1870
schnorr1875
panhandle1894
pling1915
stem1924
nickel-and-dime1942
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B An honest decayed Commaunder, cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seene in a baudie house, but he shal be straight in one of their wormewod Comedies. View more context for this quotation
1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley i. i You see how I must skelder for your good.
1633 S. Marmion Fine Compan. iii. iv Wandering abroad to skelder for a shilling.
1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. iii. 57 Such a wife would save thee from skeldering on the public.
2. transitive. To swindle, cheat, defraud (a person); also, to obtain (money) by cheating.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > take by swindling
wipec1000
fleece1537
fraud1570
shark1613
boba1616
foola1616
rook1647
sharp1707
escroc1738
swindle1779
skelder1822
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. Fv A man may skelder yee, now and than, of halfe a dozen shillinges, or so. View more context for this quotation
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E2 He shall now and then light vpon some Gull..whom he may skelder..of mony.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. x. 276 I could not skelder one piece out of them, without risk of hue and cry.

Derivatives

ˈskeldering n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging
thigging1331
cravingc1430
rogation?1536
progging1579
skeldering1600
begging1606
beggary1608
maunding1608
maund1610
gooding1646
mendication1646
mumping1685
mendicity1756
cadge1819
cadging1859
mumpery1894
plinging1910
yegging1913
panhandling1931
aggressive panhandling1981
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aiv Shift... His profession is skeldring and odling. View more context for this quotation
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. D2v If Skeldring fall not to decay, thou shalt florish.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London Ded. That art of Skeldring I studie not; I stand vpon stronger Bases.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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