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Bootlegging vs Counterfeiting - What's the difference?

bootlegging | counterfeiting |

As verbs the difference between bootlegging and counterfeiting

is that bootlegging is present participle of lang=en while counterfeiting is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun counterfeiting is

the act of one who counterfeits.

bootlegging

English

Verb

(head)

    • counterfeiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who counterfeits.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)