gonif
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A person who steals from others
- noun
- /ˈɡoʊnɪf/
- Offensive
:
ratero
- Gonif.
Examples
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I told you this no-good gonif was gonna make a fool out of you.
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He may seem charming, but he's just a gonif who will cheat you out of your money.
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The police warned the community about a gonif who was stealing packages from porches.
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Don't trust him; he has a reputation as a gonif and can't be trusted with your belongings.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person who steals from others or cheats them
is the alternative informal spelling for the same insulting sense
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9.9
A person who steals or cheats others to take their money
is used chiefly in US informal speech rather than other dialects
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9.9
A person who cheats people to get money
focuses on simple theft rather than deceptive cheating for profit
9.9
A person who steals from or cheats other people
is the chiefly US informal form rather than the dialectal Yiddish term
Antonyms
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word gonif comes from Yiddish and the Hebrew word ganav, which means 'to steal' or 'thief'. So calling someone a gonif is like calling them a thief or a dishonest person.