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Swindle vs Windle - What's the difference?

swindle | windle |

As nouns the difference between swindle and windle

is that swindle is an instance of swindling while windle is the redwing.

As a verb swindle

is to defraud (someone).

swindle

English

Verb

(swindl)
  • To defraud (someone).
    • ''The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
  • To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

    • Synonyms

    * (to be swindled) be sold a pup * (to defraud) swizz (informal, mainly British)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of .

    • Synonyms

    * scheme, swizz (informal, mainly British)

    Anagrams

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    windle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from wind.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) The redwing.
  • * '>citation

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208.
    • In the Derby household book of 1561, wheat, malt, and oats are sold by the quarter and the windle , in which the quarter clearly contained sixteen windles, and must have been a wholly different measure from that which we are familiar.
  • Dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata .
  • Bent grass.