Rook vs Scam - What's the difference?
rook | scam |
A European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
* Pennant
A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
(British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
To cheat or swindle.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
(rare) A castle or other fortification.
mist; fog; roke
To defraud or embezzle.
As nouns the difference between rook and scam
is that rook is skirt while scam is fraudulent deal.As a verb scam is
to defraud or embezzle.rook
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
- (Wycherley)
Synonyms
* (swindler) swindler, cheatHypernyms
* (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecrackerVerb
(en verb)- Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
Synonyms
* (sense) cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindleEtymology 2
From (etyl) roc, ultimately from (etyl) . Compare (roc).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (chesspiece) castleSee also
* *See also
* squabEtymology 3
From rookie .Etymology 4
Noun
(-)Etymology 5
Anagrams
* ----scam
English
Synonyms
* con game * confidence trick * See alsoVerb
(scamm)- They tried to scam her out of her savings.