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gyp
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
Alternative forms
- gip, jip (eye dialect spellings)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
- Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”)
Usage notes
Because this term is often considered to derive from the exonymic term Gypsy and represent a racist stereotype of the Romani, it may be offensive. See the usage note about gypsy.
Translations
Verb
gyp (third-person singular simple present gyps, present participle gypping, simple past and past participle gypped)
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
- The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
- You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
Usage notes
See the notes about the noun, above.
Etymology 2
Perhaps the same as Etymology 1. An earlier theory derived the term from Ancient Greek ??? (gúps, “vulture”) (/?ýps/; compare Greek ????? (gýpas) /??i.pas/), "in reference to thievish habits of the servants" (and then derived Etymology 1 thence), but this does not explain the pronunciation.
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- (Cambridge and Durham, England, now chiefly historical) A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, 1919, Longmans, page 15,
- 'Why, what is the matter with you, John?' I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 14]:
- Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, 1919, Longmans, page 15,
- (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
- (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
Etymology 3
Shortening.
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- Gypsophila.
Etymology 4
Perhaps from gee up.
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- Pain or discomfort.
- My back's giving me gyp.
See also
- jew down
- welsh
References
- Gyp: Thieve, World Wide Words
- Etymology of "Gyp" / "gypped", Vocaboly.com
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con
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n/
- (General American) enPR: k?n, IPA(key): /k?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophone: conn; (General American) Khan
Etymology 1
From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (whence know). Doublet of can.
Verb
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- For Cassius is aweary of the world;
- Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
- Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
- Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
- To cast into my teeth.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):
- At length, himself unsettling, he the pond
- Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look
- Upon the muddy water, which he conned,
- As if he had been reading in a book
- 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:
- I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.
- 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:
- The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- (rare, obsolete) To know, understand, acknowledge.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:
- Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:
Related terms
- cunning
- ken
- unconned
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).
Noun
con (plural cons)
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- pros and cons
- (abbreviation) conservative
- own the cons
Synonyms
- disadvantage
Antonyms
- pro
Related terms
- pros and cons
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of convict.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
Translations
Etymology 4
From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deception
Translations
Verb
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
Synonyms
- (to be conned): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
Translations
Related terms
Etymology 5
From earlier cond; see conn.
Verb
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)
Noun
con (uncountable)
- Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)
Etymology 6
Clipping of convention or conference.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.
- I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.
Etymology 7
Clipping of conversion.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
- We're getting a loft con done next year.
Etymology 8
Clipping of consumption.
Noun
con (uncountable)
- (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.
See also
- cone
- mod cons
Anagrams
- CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”).
Preposition
con
- with
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”).
Preposition
con
- with
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin conus.
Noun
con m (plural cons)
- cone
Related terms
- cònic
Dalmatian
Etymology 1
From Latin cum
Preposition
con
- with
Etymology 2
From Latin cunnus.
Noun
con m
- (vulgar) vulva, cunt
Fala
Etymology
From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm.
Preposition
con
- with
Antonyms
- sin
French
Etymology
From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??/
Noun
con m (plural cons, feminine conne)
- (vulgar) cunt, pussy
- (vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)
Adjective
con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)
- (slang, vulgar) stupid
Derived terms
Further reading
- “con” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- onc
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [k??]
Preposition
con
- with
Antonyms
- sen
Derived terms
- coa, coas
- co, cos
- cun, cuns
- cunha, cunhas
Conjunction
con
- and
Etymology 2
Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”) rather than from Latin c?nus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel.
Alternative forms
- co
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??/
Noun
con m (plural cons)
- boulder, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore
- Synonyms: laxe, petón
Derived terms
- Con
- Coedo
Related terms
- coio
- coído
References
- “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “caun” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “con” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “con” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?/
Noun
con m sg
- genitive singular of cú
Mutation
Italian
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/
Preposition
con
- with, together
- (rowing) coxed
Usage notes
- When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (marking these combined forms in writing is old-fashioned, and very rarely used apart from col and coi; however, it has always been very common in speech, and it still is):
Antonyms
- senza
Ladin
Alternative forms
- cun (Gherdëina, Badia)
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”).
Preposition
con
- with
- Antonyms: zenza, zënza
Ligurian
Etymology
From Latin cum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ku?/
Preposition
con
- with
Middle Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/
Noun
con m
- genitive singular/dual/plural of cú
Mutation
Muong
Alternative forms
- còn (tone sandhi)
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *k??n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *ku?n. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer ??? (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.
Noun
con
- child
Classifier
con
- Indicates animals (including the human)
References
- Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hi?u v? ng? pháp ti?ng M??ng (Thim hi?u wuê ng? pháp thi?ng M??ng) [Understanding Muong grammar]?[3] (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh S?n–Phú Th? Province Continuing Education Center
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin cunnus.
Noun
con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)
- (vulgar) cunt (human female genitalia)
See also
- landie
Descendants
- French: con
Etymology 2
See conme.
Conjunction
con
- Alternative form of conme
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/
Noun
con m
- genitive singular/dual/plural of cú
Mutation
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kõ/
Preposition
con
- with
Descendants
- Fala: con
- Galician: con
- Portuguese: com
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cum.
Preposition
con
- with
Descendants
- Ladino: kon
- Spanish: con
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/, [kõn]
- Rhymes: -on
Preposition
con
- with
- on
Derived terms
Antonyms
- sin
See also
- conmigo
- consigo
- contigo
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *k??n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *ku?n. Cognate with Muong còn, Thavung ???, Mon ????? (kon), Khmer ??? (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese k?an. For semantic relations, compare Chinese ? (“child; small thing; son”), Japanese ? (shi, ko, “child; small thing; son; boy; girl”). See also non (“young, juvenile”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [k?n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [k????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [k????]
Noun
(classifier ??a) con • (????, ?)
- a child (daughter or son)
- (rare, chiefly in translations of ancient texts) a son
- Antonym: con gái
Derived terms
Noun
con • (????, ?)
- (rare, only in compounds) a small thing
Derived terms
See also
- t?
Pronoun
con • (????, ?)
- I/me, your child
- (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I/me, someone a lot younger than you
- you, my child
- (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you, someone a lot younger than me
Usage notes
- Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.
Synonyms
- (you (4)): cháu
Classifier
con
- Indicates animals (including humans).
- (disrepectful) Indicates female people.
- Antonym: th?ng
- Indicates knives, ships, boats, trains and irises.
- Indicates roads, rivers, streams and waves.
- (somewhat literary) Indicates written characters.
- (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.
- (colloquial) Indicates video games and movies.
Usage notes
- Even though con ng??i is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and ng??i does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese ? (nin)). M?t con ng??i "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while m?t ng??i sounds casual enough.
- The phrase con ng??i is popularly employed as a philosophical trope or device to bring up discussions about what it means to be human as opposed to being an animal, even though it is not really semantically convincing given the fact that humans are, zoologically, animals, and there are non-animal things going with this classifier.
Derived terms
See also
- cái
Zazaki
Etymology
Related to Persian ???? (jân).
Noun
con ?
- soul
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