Grift vs Gruft - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between grift and gruft

is that grift is a confidence game or swindle while gruft is the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.

is to obtain illegally, as by con game.

(en noun)

a confidence game or swindle.

as in "What's the Grift?" or "What are you trying to pull?"

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(en verb)

To obtain illegally, as by con game.

To obtain money illegally.

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(dialect) the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain

A gruft which adheres to the grass in wet weather.