HORNSWOGGLE

victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con

(verb) deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”;

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

hornswoggle (third-person singular simple present hornswoggles, present participle hornswoggling, simple past and past participle hornswoggled)

(transitive) To deceive or trick.

Synonyms

• (deceive or trick): deceive, dupe, trick

Source: Wiktionary