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Grift vs Grist - What's the difference?

grift | grist |

As nouns the difference between grift and grist

is that grift is a confidence game or swindle while grist is grain that is to be ground in a mill.

As a verb grift

is to obtain illegally, as by con game.

grift

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a confidence game or swindle.
    • as in "What's the Grift?" or "What are you trying to pull?"

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To obtain illegally, as by con game.
  • To obtain money illegally.

    • grist

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • (obsolete) A group of bees.
  • (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
    • (Knight)

    Derived terms

    * grist mill / gristmill * it's all grist to the mill

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