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GONIFF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("goniff" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)