different between shenanigan vs swindle

English

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Earliest known use comes from San Francisco in 1855 at the time of the California Gold Rush. These possibilities have been suggested:

• French ces manigances (“these fraudulent schemes”).
• Spanish chanada, shortening of charranada (“trick, deceit”).
• Irish sionnachuighim (“I play the fox”).
• Rhine Franconian schinägeln (“to work hard”), from the peddler's argot term Schenigelei (“work”).
• East Anglian dialect nannicking (“playing the fool”).
• 18th century German Scheinheiligens (“sham holy men / sham holy actions”, noun plural), scheinheilig (“hypocritical”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???næn???n/,

Noun

shenanigan (countable and uncountable, plural shenanigans)

1. (countable) A deceitful confidence trick, or mischief causing discomfort or annoyance.

2. (uncountable, dated, rare) singular of shenanigans.

Translations

References

• shenanigan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintiln, frequentative of the verb swintan; compare Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish ???????? (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw?nd(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?nd?l

Verb

swindle (third-person singular simple present swindles, present participle swindling, simple past and past participle swindled)

1. (transitive) To defraud.

   The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

   She swindled more than £200 out of me.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deceive
• (to be swindled): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
• (to defraud): swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Noun

swindle (plural swindles)

1. An instance of swindling.
2. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception
• scheme
• swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Anagrams

• Windles, wildens, windles