{"id":12263,"date":"2016-04-15T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2016-04-15T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:16:18","slug":"escroquerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12263","title":{"rendered":"Escroquerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting French word I learnt yesterday is <strong>escroquerie<\/strong> [\u025bsk\u0281\u0254k\u0281i], which means a swindle or fraud. It comes from <em>escroquer<\/em> (to swindle). A related word is <em>escroc<\/em> (villain, baddy). It probably comes from the Italian word <em>scroccare<\/em> (to eat or live at others&#8217; expense) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnrtl.fr\/definition\/escroquer\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other English equivalents of <em>escroquer<\/em> include scrounge, sponge, cadge and blag. Are there others? What about in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting French word I learnt yesterday is escroquerie [\u025bsk\u0281\u0254k\u0281i], which means a swindle or fraud. It comes from escroquer (to swindle). A related word is escroc (villain, baddy). It probably comes from the Italian word scroccare (to eat or live at others&#8217; expense) [source]. Other English equivalents of escroquer include scrounge, sponge, cadge and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,128,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}