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词组 illywhacker
释义 illywhacker
noun
a confidence trickster AUSTRALIA, 1941
Agent noun from the obsolete phrase “whack the illy” (to swindle; to perform confidence tricks). “Illy” may possibly be a variant of obsolete “eelie” (a confidence trick) which in turn is possibly from “eeler-spee”, a Pig Latin variant of SPIELERIllywhacker.
  • — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 48, 1977
  • Con men, illywhackers and low-lifes hung around listening to Jesus. — Kel Richards, The Aussie Bible, p. 49, 2003
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