† trokertrukern.
Scottish. Obsolete.
a. A deceiver, cheat; a rascal, rogue.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives
swikec1000
wielerOE
adderOE
knavec1275
treacherc1290
guiler1303
gabbera1325
tricharda1327
faitoura1340
jugglera1340
beswiker1340
wernard1362
knackerc1380
beguilera1382
deceiver1382
illusor1382
deceivant1393
fob1393
falsea1400
mocker?c1450
feature14..
deceptor1484
seductor1490
bullera1500
troker?a1500
craftera1529
circumventorc1540
bobber1542
cloyner?1550
illuder?1550
tricker1550
double-dealer1567
treacherer1571
falsary1573
abuser1579
falser1579
treachetour1590
deluder1592
ignis fatuus1592
foolmonger1593
prestigiator1595
aguiler1598
baffler1606
cog-foist1606
feaguer1610
guile-man1614
hocus-pocus1624
colt1632
hoodwink1638
blindfoldera1649
napper1653
cheat1664
fooler1677
underdealer1682
circumvenerc1686
chincher1688
dodger1698
nickum1699
sheep-shearer1699
trickster1711
bilker1717
trickologist1723
taker-in1776
bilk1790
duper1792
Yorkshire bite1801
intake1808
gammoner1819
doer1840
delusionist1841
fiddler1857
snide1874
hoodwinker1884
tanger1886
take-down1888
tiddlywinker1893
wangler1912
frost1914
twicer1924
lurkman1945
jive-ass1964
skanker1973
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2101 in Poems (1981) 80 Staff or sting ȝone truker for to stryke.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 511 With diligence and bissie cuir tha woik, And mony trucour in the tyme tha tuik.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1001 in Wks. (1931) I Agane our wyll, those treukouris bene intrusit.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 221 Thir fallis trukeris quhilk cause ȝour grace to beleif ewill on my handis.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 78 The treuth now ȝe haue spyit Of that Truikour.
a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 225 Thy doytit dytings soone denie, Trouker, or I thy trumperie trie.
b. attributive or as adj.
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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 58 Mony at this tyme mony trukour tragidies in the cuntrie stiret vp.
1650 Dalgety Sess. Rec. in W. Ross Glimpses of Pastoral Work in Covenanting Times (1877) ix. 172 William Skinstone..did sclandour him in calling him a trewker lowne.
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