gip vs scam what difference
what is difference between gip and scam
English
Etymology 1
Verb
gip (third-person singular simple present gips, present participle gipping, simple past and past participle gipped)
- Alternative form of gyp
Noun
gip (plural gips)
- A servant; a gyp.
Etymology 2
Verb
gip (third-person singular simple present gips, present participle gipping, simple past and past participle gipped)
- To take out the entrails of (herrings).
- (Yorkshire) to retch
Derived terms
- gipper
Anagrams
- GPI, PGI, PIG, Pig, pig
Occitan
Pronunciation
Noun
gip m (plural gips)
- plaster (substance)
Synonyms
- geis
Derived terms
- engipar
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From German Gift.
Noun
gip
- poison
English
Etymology
US carnival slang. Possibly from scamp (“swindler, cheater”). Also possibly from skam.
The word “scam” became common use among the US “drug culture” in early 1980 after Operation ABSCAM, an FBI sting operation directed at public officials, became public.
Pronunciation
- enPR: skăm, IPA(key): /skæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Noun
scam (plural scams)
- A fraudulent deal.
- That marketing scheme looks like a scam to me.
- Something that is promoted using scams.
- That car was a scam.
Synonyms
- con game, confidence trick, swindle
- See also Thesaurus:deception
Coordinate terms
- take for a ride
Translations
Verb
scam (third-person singular simple present scams, present participle scamming, simple past and past participle scammed)
- (transitive) To defraud or embezzle.
- They tried to scam her out of her savings.
Synonyms
- con
Translations
Anagrams
- ACMs, ACSM, CAMs, CASM, CSMA, M. A. Sc., M.A.Sc., MACs, MASc, MCAs, Macs, SMAC, cams, macs, masc, masc.
Middle Irish
Etymology
Attested only in the plural form scaim. From Proto-Celtic *skamos. Cognate with Welsh ysgafn (“light”) and Welsh ysgyfaint (“(pair of) lungs”), Breton skañv, Cornish skav.
Noun
scam
- lung
References
- Matasović, R. (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, p.339. Brill: Boston.
