Synonyms for gold brick
- verb
- noun
All synonyms
Verb
1. Short-change
short-change, con, scam, rook, fiddle, defraud, swindle, diddle, victimize, victimise UK, bunco, mulct, hornswoggle slang, nobble slang
Noun
never-do-well, good-for-nothing, dog, gold-bricker, spiv UK IE, malingerer, shirker, truant, good-for-naught dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To shirk or malinger.
- n. 1
Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.
Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.
Related words
- Other spellings
- gold-brick goldbrick
Example sentences
- con Sami doesn't want an ex-con working at his office.
- scam I wonder whether or not this is some sort of scam.
- rook Can a rook in chess attack in a forward direction?
- soldier He went to China as a soldier, never to come back.
- shirk I won’t mislead you, I won’t betray you, I won't shirk!
By length
- 3 letters
- dog1, con1
- 4 letters
- scam1, rook1, spiv
- 5 letters
- shirk1, bunco, mulct1
- 6 letters
- fiddle2, diddle2, truant2, nobble
- 7 letters
- soldier2, defraud2, swindle2, shirker
- 9 letters
- victimize3, victimise
- 10 letters
- malingerer
- 11 letters
- hornswoggle
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fiddle2 = 2 syllables).