Griftとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).

発音

IPA: /ɡɹɪft/
韻: -ɪft

名詞

grift (plural grifts)

(US, slang) A confidence game or swindle. [from 1906]

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deception

Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?
- 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 172:
  
  ‘Sounds like he’s trying to stretch out his grift for as long as possible,’ Gentle said. ‘Taking as much from his followers as he can before it falls apart.’

派生語

grifter
shopgrift

動詞

grift (third-person singular simple present grifts, present participle grifting, simple past and past participle grifted)

(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game. [from early 20th c.]
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally. [from early 20th c.]
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

参照

^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “grift”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ Eric Partridge (1949), A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co., page 307
^ Word Origins...And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone, Anatoly Liberman (2009), p. 32

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “grift”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

[2] Eric Partridge (1949), A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co., page 307

[3] Word Origins...And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone, Anatoly Liberman (2009), p. 32


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