Synonyms for fleecer
- con man
- crook
- hustler
- swindler
- barricuda
- bilker
- bunco
- cheater
- clip artist
- deceiver
- flimflammer
- fraud
- hoser
- mountebank
- scam artist
- scammer
- shark
- sharpie
- smoothie
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They bargained and sold shrewdly, kept their wits ever open, turned sycophant to the aristocracy and a fleecer of the laborer.
Fox & Fleecer had instructions to unload at a dollar twenty-five, and they follow such instructions absolutely.
WORD ORIGIN
Old English fleos, from West Germanic *flusaz (cf. Middle Dutch vluus, Dutch vlies, Middle High German vlius, German Vlies), probably from PIE *pleus- "to pluck," also "a feather, fleece" (cf. Latin pluma "feather, down," Lithuanian plunksna "feather").
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