英和和英

語源

Afrikaans slenter (“ploy, scam, stroll, saunter”)

名詞

shlenter (複数形 shlenters)

1. A fake, especially a fake diamond.
2. A scam, ploy, fraud, trick.
   • 2010, Peter Taylor, “Trip to Appelboskraal via Stadsaal”, in South African Trips:

     I did a shlenter. I went up to the girl while she was opening the gate and asked her to leave it open.

3. A scammer.

動詞

shlenter (三人称単数 現在形 shlenters, 現在分詞 shlentering, 過去形および過去分詞形 shlentered)

1. (rare, transitive) To acquire in an underhanded way.
2. (rare, transitive) To scam, fool, deceive, trick.
   • 2016, Bridget Hilton-Barber, Student Comrade Prisoner Spy: A memoir:

     In the time I spend at Rhodes I will encounter many brilliant minds and come to understand principles, strategies and tactics, caucusing, shlentering, back-stabbing, manipulation, campaigning, alliances – and I will also witness the depths of human determination and depravity, and the utter Shakespearean nature of it all.

形容詞

shlenter (not comparable)

1. Fake, not genuine, counterfeit.
   • 1881 February 28, “Dunedin Races. Third Day.”, in North Otago Times, NZ, volume XXVIII, number 2713, page 2:

     There was a good deal of talk on the about about certain racing men last evening publicly taking "shlenter" wages …

   • 1899, Anna Dunphy Bremont, The Gentleman Digger:

     "Of course," whispers the seller, who had pushed his way to the side of the buyer, "this sale was only shlenter."

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