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- noun Alternative form of
gonoph .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
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Examples
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For those Mooseketeers who are not fluent in Yiddish, "goniff" means a dishonest person.
Bull Moose 2005
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For those Mooseketeers who are not fluent in Yiddish, "goniff" means a dishonest person.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Bernie Madoff the goniff stole $50 Billion in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, and I'm about to be taken to the American Express Abu Gahreb.
WN.com - Articles related to Push for Europe-Wide Oversight of Credit Raters 2010
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Bernie Madoff the goniff stole $50 Billion in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, and I'm about to be taken to the American Express Abu Gahreb.
WN.com - Articles related to Push for Europe-Wide Oversight of Credit Raters 2010
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"That goniff who should be doing time, chopping rocks, making license plates, somehow slipped out of his apartment confinement and he's treating himself to a shore dinner."
The New Yorker 2009
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"That goniff who should be doing time, chopping rocks, making license plates, somehow slipped out of his apartment confinement and he's treating himself to a shore dinner."
The New Yorker Woody Allen 2009
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They used Yiddish words such as tineff for ` shoddy goods, 'goniff for ` thief,' mumser for an ` unpleasant person '(usually the head merchandise buyer), zu viel gelt for ` too much money,' schlock for
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To blow through $130 million campaign dollars while pocketing over 3% of that (Penn's cut plus God-only-knows what Wolfson's getting — it ain't chicken feed.) and losing 11 straight contests in crunch time, is to scream from the rooftops “I am ... a goniff — and don't particularly give a rat's ass what you think of me or how I handle things — just as long as I get “my cut”.
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To blow through $130 million campaign dollars while pocketing over 3% of that (Penn's cut plus God-only-knows what Wolfson's getting — it ain't chicken feed.) and losing 11 straight contests in crunch time, is to scream from the rooftops “I am ... a goniff — and don't particularly give a rat's ass what you think of me or how I handle things — just as long as I get “my cut”.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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I'd rather you didn't hear me negotiating for money with this goniff, since it might tarnish the bright image you have of me as a sweet and demure person. "
Tek Money Shatner, William 1995
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