grifter的词源

英文词源

grifter (n.)

"confidence trickster," 1906, carnival and circus slang, probably an alteration of grafter (see graft (n.2); also compare grift). Gradually extended to "any non-violent criminal."

中文词源

grifter：骗子

来自graft, 受贿。引申义骗子。

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