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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fawr-fluhsh-er, fohr-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɔrˌflʌʃ ər, ˈfoʊr-



Definition of four-flusher

Origin :
  • "cheat, dishonest person," 1900, from verb four-flush "to bluff a poker hand, claim a flush (n.) while holding only four cards in the suit" (1896).
  • As in quack : noun person who pretends to be an expert
  • As in swindler : noun person who cheats another
  • As in tartuffe : noun hypocrite
  • As in fake : noun imposter, copy
  • As in fraud : noun person who is false, deceitful
  • As in hypocrite : noun person who pretends, is deceitful
  • As in impostor : noun person pretending to be something else
Example sentences :
  • But, as I've said before, when it comes to figurin' on what women or horses'll do, I'm a four-flusher.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
  • This extra dresser is a four-flusher, for he is trying to appear as something that he is not.
  • Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • He'd thought the world of Don Roberts, who had turned out a four-flusher.
  • Extract from : « Rough-Hewn » by Dorothy Canfield
  • Don hadn't ever pretended to be any less of a four-flusher than he was.
  • Extract from : « Rough-Hewn » by Dorothy Canfield
  • And I've got four thousand that belongs to that four-flusher, Square Deal.
  • Extract from : « Square Deal Sanderson » by Charles Alden Seltzer
  • You have been telling men that I am a coward and a four-flusher.
  • Extract from : « Judith of Blue Lake Ranch » by Jackson Gregory
  • The fancy-colored, freakish paper is nearly always used by the four-flusher in business.
  • Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • If an employe is a sluggard or a four-flusher, he may be sure these things will be found out and he cannot hope for advancement.
  • Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • I ain't such a four-flusher as to lay down my hand before I've played it out.
  • Extract from : « Steve Yeager » by William MacLeod Raine

Synonyms for four-flusher

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