spiv

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noun

Plural noun:

spivs

1.
(Ireland, UK, historical)A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods, especially during World War II.
2.
(Ireland, UK, dated)A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits.
Đồng nghĩa: sharper, chiseler, wide boy, bunco-steerer, charlatan, cheat, cheater, chiseler, cozener, defrauder, finagler, fleecer, fraud, fraudmeister, fraudster, humbug, goldbrick, grifter, gull, gyp, landshark, pickpenny, rook, scammer, scamp, Scandaroon, schemester, sharper, slicker, spieler, swindler, trapan, trepan, bristler, bunco artist, bunco-steerer, chiseler, con artist, confidence artist, confidence trickster, conman, flimflammer, grifter, lugger, magsman, mountebank, saltimbanco, sharpster, sharker, shark-gull, slicker, smooth operator, spiv
3.
(Ireland, UK, dated)(UK, Ireland, dated, Scotland Yard) A low and common thief.
4.
(Ireland, UK, dated)A slacker; one who shirks responsibility.

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Nguồn gốc từ

. Perhaps from spiff, spiffy. Spiv was the nickname of Henry Bagster, a Londoner arrested a number of times in 1904-6 for activities as described below, and may have been the archetype. Also possibly from spiv (sparrow), as active and opportunistic.