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samfi; samfai; samfi-man; samfie man
noun
a swindler, a confidence trickster JAMAICA, 1943
Many other variant spellings. Without the modifying “man”may also be used as a verb.- Jamaica John is a real samfie man. — Ofelia Garcia and Ricardo Otheguy, English Across Cultures, Cultures Across English, p. 253, 1989
- [A]ll tangled up with samfai man[.] — Susan B Miller, Indigo Rose, p. 207, 2004
- [S]amfi men like vultures loitering around rural bus stops. — Ivet Graham-Morgan, Mama Was a Princess, p. 85, 2007
- Not a stone was fling, not a samfie sting. — Belinda Edmondson, Caribbean Middlebrow, p. 106, 2010
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