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Grafter vs Grifter - What's the difference?

grafter | grifter |

As nouns the difference between grafter and grifter

is that grafter is one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting while grifter is a con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.

grafter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
  • An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
  • The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
  • (slang) Someone who works in market stalls.

    • Related terms

    * graft

    grifter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.
  • :1939 . "We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel". The Big Sleep .
  • :1958 . "That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew". That Hell-Bound Train .