| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To filch or thieve. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To plunder, pillage or loot. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To steal, deprive, cadge or snatch. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To pick or winnow. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To glide or hover. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To clip or shear. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To cleave or rend. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To cheat or gouge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To crack, rent or fissure.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb fleece.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fleece) |
1. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.[Wordnet]. 2. Shear the wool from.[Wordnet]. 3. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.[Websters]. 4. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.[Websters]. 5. To spread over as with wool.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: fleecing, fleeced, fleeces, fleecer, fleecers, fleecingly and fleecedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "Fleecing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1764. (references) |
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| Noah Webster | [Verb] Stripping of money or property by severe demands of fees, taxes or contributions.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of fleece. (references) | ||
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| The Golden Fleecing | 5 | The Golden Fleecing | 5 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | بَقَرَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), خالَسَ (abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstracts, bereave), فَسَخَ (abrogate, countermand, invalidate, negate, nullify), فَتَّقَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), قَلَمَ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, cut), قَلَّمَ (cut, prune, trim, clip, clipped), سَلَبَ (despoil, fleece, loot, pillage, plunder), اِخْتِلاس (embezzlement, larceny, abstraction, abstractions, defalcation), اِجْتَزَّ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, crack), أَفْرَى (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | بَقَرَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), خالَسَ (abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstracts, bereave), فَسَخَ (abrogate, countermand, invalidate, negate, nullify), فَتَّقَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), قَلَمَ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, cut), قَلَّمَ (cut, prune, trim, clip, clipped), سَلَبَ (despoil, fleece, loot, pillage, plunder), اِخْتِلاس (embezzlement, larceny, abstraction, abstractions, defalcation), اِجْتَزَّ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, crack), أَفْرَى (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Algerian French | sarraquer (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder). Additional references: Algerian French, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Amognard | piger (take, to take, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: Amognard, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | بَقَرَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), خالَسَ (abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstracts, bereave), فَسَخَ (abrogate, countermand, invalidate, negate, nullify), فَتَّقَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), قَلَمَ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, cut), قَلَّمَ (cut, prune, trim, clip, clipped), سَلَبَ (despoil, fleece, loot, pillage, plunder), اِخْتِلاس (embezzlement, larceny, abstraction, abstractions, defalcation), اِجْتَزَّ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, crack), أَفْرَى (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bordeluche | tchourer (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder). Additional references: Bordeluche, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | pelar (skin, strip, to flay, flay, fleecing). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Capeverdian | túskia (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), trakabelu (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), korta (cut, shear, carve, cut out, to carve), roba (fly, to fly, steal, plunder, to rob), furta (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder). Additional references: Capeverdian, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Central Danish | vliesmaskine (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Champenois | déshabiller (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing). Additional references: Champenois, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 诈取 (fleece, fleecing, swiz, swizz, defraud), 羊毛 (fleece, wool, woolen, wools, cashmere), 剪下羊毛 (fleece, fleecing). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Traditional | 剪下羊毛 (fleece, fleecing), 詐取 (fleece, cheat, fleecing, swiz, swizz). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corse | runfà (fly, to fly, steal, cadge, convey), arpagà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arrunfà (fly, to fly, steal, apprehend, to apprehend), chjappà (take, to take, seize, to seize, catch), frambuttà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arià (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), piglià (take, to stop, to take, stop, borrow), scruccà (extort, to extort, actuate, to actuate, beat), scruccunà (exploit, fly, to fly, steal, extort), vulà (hear, to hear, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsi | runfà (fly, to fly, steal, cadge, convey), arpagà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arrunfà (fly, to fly, steal, apprehend, to apprehend), chjappà (take, to take, seize, to seize, catch), frambuttà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arià (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), piglià (take, to stop, to take, stop, borrow), scruccà (extort, to extort, actuate, to actuate, beat), scruccunà (exploit, fly, to fly, steal, extort), vulà (hear, to hear, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsican | runfà (fly, to fly, steal, cadge, convey), arpagà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arrunfà (fly, to fly, steal, apprehend, to apprehend), chjappà (take, to take, seize, to seize, catch), frambuttà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arià (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), piglià (take, to stop, to take, stop, borrow), scruccà (extort, to extort, actuate, to actuate, beat), scruccunà (exploit, fly, to fly, steal, extort), vulà (hear, to hear, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corso | runfà (fly, to fly, steal, cadge, convey), arpagà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arrunfà (fly, to fly, steal, apprehend, to apprehend), chjappà (take, to take, seize, to seize, catch), frambuttà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arià (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), piglià (take, to stop, to take, stop, borrow), scruccà (extort, to extort, actuate, to actuate, beat), scruccunà (exploit, fly, to fly, steal, extort), vulà (hear, to hear, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsu | runfà (fly, to fly, steal, cadge, convey), arpagà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arrunfà (fly, to fly, steal, apprehend, to apprehend), chjappà (take, to take, seize, to seize, catch), frambuttà (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), arià (fly, to fly, steal, convey, deprive), piglià (take, to stop, to take, stop, borrow), scruccà (extort, to extort, actuate, to actuate, beat), scruccunà (exploit, fly, to fly, steal, extort), vulà (hear, to hear, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Daco-Rumanian | jupuialã (excoriation, fleecing, robbing, skinning), jumulealã (fleecing), jefuire (fleecing, pillage, rapine, rifling, robbery). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Danish | vliesmaskine (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dansk | vliesmaskine (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | schröpfend (fleecing, cupping, bleeding). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dutch | schapenscheren (fleecing, sheep clipping, sheep shearing), schapescheren (fleecing). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Forézien | roubâ (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder), gourniflâ (fly, to fly, steal, beg, to beg), frouillâ (fly, to fly, deceive, steal, to deceive), appiâ (take, to take, earn, to earn, seize). Additional references: Forézien, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | écorcherie (fleecing), écorchement (fleecing, chafing, abrasion, scratching, skinning), tondre (shear, clip, cut, crop, mow), voler (fly, steal, to fly, rob, thieve), toison (fleece, fell, fur, mop of hair, fleecing), escroquer (swindle, defraud, con, diddle, trick), nappeuse (fleecing machine, Lapper, lapping machine, napping-machine, topper), machine à tondre (fleecing machine), machine d'écorcherie (fleecing machine), À la recherche de la Toison d'or (The Golden Fleecing). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | écorcherie (fleecing), écorchement (fleecing, chafing, abrasion, scratching, skinning), tondre (shear, clip, cut, crop, mow), voler (fly, steal, to fly, rob, thieve), toison (fleece, fell, fur, mop of hair, fleecing), escroquer (swindle, defraud, con, diddle, trick), nappeuse (fleecing machine, Lapper, lapping machine, napping-machine, topper), machine à tondre (fleecing machine), machine d'écorcherie (fleecing machine), À la recherche de la Toison d'or (The Golden Fleecing). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | schröpfend (fleecing, cupping, bleeding). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Greek | ακατέργαστο έριον (fleecing), ακατέργαστο μαλλί (fleecing). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Greek (transliteration) | akatergasto erion (fleecing), akatergasto malli (fleecing). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Guadeloupe Creole | tonn (shear, clip, cut, fleece, contact point). Additional references: Guadeloupe Creole, Guadeloupe, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | بَقَرَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), خالَسَ (abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstracts, bereave), فَسَخَ (abrogate, countermand, invalidate, negate, nullify), فَتَّقَ (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft), قَلَمَ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, cut), قَلَّمَ (cut, prune, trim, clip, clipped), سَلَبَ (despoil, fleece, loot, pillage, plunder), اِخْتِلاس (embezzlement, larceny, abstraction, abstractions, defalcation), اِجْتَزَّ (clip, clipped, clipping, clips, crack), أَفْرَى (cleave, cleaved, Cleaves, cleaving, cleft). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | schröpfend (fleecing, cupping, bleeding). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | schröpfend (fleecing, cupping, bleeding). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | 巻き上げ (fleece Ing, fleecing, hoist, winding, fleece-ing). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kanuri | ndalleskin (fly, to fly, steal, balk, flying), farneskin (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder). Additional references: Kanuri, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Langadoc | roustir (fly, to fly, steal, defraud, to defraud), escaner (fly, to fly, steal, strangle, to strangle), engarcer (deceive, to deceive, cheat, tease, aggravate). Additional references: Langadoc, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Languedoc | roustir (fly, to fly, steal, defraud, to defraud), escaner (fly, to fly, steal, strangle, to strangle), engarcer (deceive, to deceive, cheat, tease, aggravate). Additional references: Languedoc, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Languedocien | roustir (fly, to fly, steal, defraud, to defraud), escaner (fly, to fly, steal, strangle, to strangle), engarcer (deceive, to deceive, cheat, tease, aggravate). Additional references: Languedocien, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Lengadoucian | roustir (fly, to fly, steal, defraud, to defraud), escaner (fly, to fly, steal, strangle, to strangle), engarcer (deceive, to deceive, cheat, tease, aggravate). Additional references: Lengadoucian, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Lorrain | tauzé (shear, cut, prune, cut back, fleecing). Additional references: Lorrain, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Lyonnais | moucher (take, to take, catch, fly, to catch). Additional references: Lyonnais, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Moldavian | jupuialã (excoriation, fleecing, robbing, skinning), jumulealã (fleecing), jefuire (fleecing, pillage, rapine, rifling, robbery). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Norman | touser (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing). Additional references: Norman, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Occitani | roustir (fly, to fly, steal, defraud, to defraud), escaner (fly, to fly, steal, strangle, to strangle), engarcer (deceive, to deceive, cheat, tease, aggravate). Additional references: Occitani, France, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ouolof | nel (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), sàcc (fly, to fly, steal, cheat, deceive), naaw (fly, to fly, steal, fly away, fly off), jalgati (defraud, to defraud, to scrawl, upset, cheat). Additional references: Ouolof, Senegal, Mauritania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Patois de Haute-Bretagne | baiser (take, to take, fly, kill, to fly). Additional references: Patois de Haute-Bretagne, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Patois of Drucourt | barbotter (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder). Additional references: Patois of Drucourt, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Patois of Roussillon | tousquirer (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), esquiler (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), escournifler (defraud, to defraud, cheat, gyp, to con). Additional references: Patois of Roussillon, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polish | strzyża (clip, fleece, fleecing). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polnisch | strzyża (clip, fleece, fleecing). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polski | strzyża (clip, fleece, fleecing). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | pelar (skin, strip, flay, peel, scale), misturador (blender, mixer, beater, masher, water tap). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Provençal | escaner (fly, to fly, steal, choke, suffocate). Additional references: Provençal, France, Monaco, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Romanian | jupuialã (excoriation, fleecing, robbing, skinning), jumulealã (fleecing), jefuire (fleecing, pillage, rapine, rifling, robbery). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Rumanian | jupuialã (excoriation, fleecing, robbing, skinning), jumulealã (fleecing), jefuire (fleecing, pillage, rapine, rifling, robbery). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Santiago Crioulu | roba (fly, to fly, steal, balk, flying). Additional references: Santiago Crioulu, Cape Verde, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Scots Gaelic | lomairt (shearing, fleecing), deamhsadh (fleecing). Additional references: Scots Gaelic, United Kingdom, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Sjaelland | vliesmaskine (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | esquilando (fleecing), lana en bruto (fleecing), napadora (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame), gill intersecting mezclador (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame), estirador mezclador (fleecing machine, machine drawing frame). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Vivaro-Alpine Occitan | tondre (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), volar (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder), raubar (fly, to fly, steal, balk, flying), catapiar (take, to take, catch, fly, to catch), catapear (take, to take, catch, fly, to catch), anelar (deceive, to deceive, cheat, disappoint, to disappoint), acatapiar (take, to take, catch, fly, to catch), acapiar (take, to take, catch, fly, to catch). Additional references: Vivaro-Alpine Occitan, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Volof | nel (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), sàcc (fly, to fly, steal, cheat, deceive), naaw (fly, to fly, steal, fly away, fly off), jalgati (defraud, to defraud, to scrawl, upset, cheat). Additional references: Volof, Senegal, Mauritania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Walaf | nel (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), sàcc (fly, to fly, steal, cheat, deceive), naaw (fly, to fly, steal, fly away, fly off), jalgati (defraud, to defraud, to scrawl, upset, cheat). Additional references: Walaf, Senegal, Mauritania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Waro-Waro | nel (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), sàcc (fly, to fly, steal, cheat, deceive), naaw (fly, to fly, steal, fly away, fly off), jalgati (defraud, to defraud, to scrawl, upset, cheat). Additional references: Waro-Waro, Senegal, Mauritania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| West Indies French | toucher (have, to have, fly, to fly, steal). Additional references: West Indies French, Caribbean, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Wolof | nel (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), sàcc (fly, to fly, steal, cheat, deceive), naaw (fly, to fly, steal, fly away, fly off), jalgati (defraud, to defraud, to scrawl, upset, cheat). Additional references: Wolof, Senegal, Mauritania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Yallof | nel (shear, cut, fleecing, mow, shearing), sàcc (fly, to fly, steal, cheat, deceive), naaw (fly, to fly, steal, fly away, fly off), jalgati (defraud, to defraud, to scrawl, upset, cheat). Additional references: Yallof, Senegal, Mauritania, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Yipunu | puremuge (fly, to fly, steal, flying, plunder), dage (fly, to fly, steal, balk, flying). Additional references: Yipunu, Gabon, fleecing. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
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| Language | Translations for “fleecing” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Athag | flathageecathaging (fleecing). Additional references: Athag, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
| Double Dutch | flageecaging (fleecing). Additional references: Double Dutch, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
| Leet | |=|33(|& (fleecing). Additional references: Leet, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
| Oppish | flopeecoping (fleecing). Additional references: Oppish, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
| Pig Latin | eecingflay (fleecing). Additional references: Pig Latin, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | toraiae (fleecing). Additional references: Terran B, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
| Ubbi Dubbi | flubeecubing (fleecing). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, fleecing. (volunteer) | |||
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| Language | Period | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | ||
| Old French | 900 - 1400 | rober (fly, to fly, plunder, steal, to rob), repondre (fly, hide, to fly, to hide, steal), raviner (run, to run, fly, to fly, steal), pelicier (fly, to fly, steal, deprive, discover), pelfrer (fly, to fly, destroy, plunder, steal), pelfer (fly, to fly, destroy, plunder, steal), furgier (fly, to fly, steal, seek, to seek), forgier (fly, to fly, steal, seek, to seek), embler (fly, to fly, steal, abscond, flee). Additional references: Old French, fleecing. (volunteer) | ||
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