bondfångare

Swedish

Man inviting people to play an illegal shell game.

Etymology

From bonde (“peasant”) +‎ fångare (“catcher”).

Noun

bondfångare n

1. confidence trickster, someone who exploits someone’s fatuity or credulity
2. a type of Chinese finger trap made of woven birchbark

   Synonym: fingerfälla (“finger trap”)

Declension

Declension of bondfångare
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bondfångare	bondfångaren	bondfångare	bondfångarna
Genitive	bondfångares	bondfångarens	bondfångares	bondfångarnas

See also

• bedragare (“fraudster”)
• lurendrejare (“trickster, lesser fraudster”)
• svindlare (“swindler”)