con woman
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- noun
- /kɒn ˈwʊmən/
- Slang
:
estafadora
- After gaining their trust, the con woman disappeared with their money.
Examples
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The hit man, the bodyguard and the con woman.
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I'm just saying, she's a con woman.
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And what is she, a con woman?
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The hit man, the bodyguard and the con woman.
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Never try to outsmart a con woman.
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Never try to outsmart a con woman.
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That's what con women do.
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Interpol has issued red notices for the hit man, a con woman...
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I guess I'm outsmarting a con woman.
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...police search for disgraced bodyguard Michael Bryce, international con woman Sonia Kincaid...
Synonyms
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A person who tricks people by gaining their trust to take their money or valuables
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A person who tricks others to take their money or things
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A person who tricks people to take their money
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A person who gets money by lying to or tricking people
A woman who gains people's trust to trick them out of money
A person who cheats others with tricks or fake deals
A person who tricks others using clever talk to take their money
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a woman who tricks people into giving her money' is directly derived from combining 'con' (to swindle) with 'woman' (an adult female); this is a straightforward agent‑noun formation (cf. 'con man') and therefore immediately interpretable. The compositional pattern is common across languages and in English, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Con woman comes from con, short for 'confidence', because a trickster first wins a person's trust. So a con woman is a woman who pretends to be trustworthy to 'trick people into giving money'.