Is there a word which means cheater and sounds like "hudson"?

[Jiayun]

Could you let me know?

Thanks!

JY

[Rover_KE]

None of the words in the thesaurus below sounds like 'hudson' to me:

WordReference English Thesaurus © 2012
cheater

• [*=-1]Sense: One who cheats
  
  • rogue
  • swindler
  • fraud
  • quack
  • charlatan
  • conniver
  • confidence man
  • scammer
  • chiseler
  • impostor
  • masquerader
  • fake
  • bluffer
  • deceiver
  • inveigler
  • double-dealer
  • trickster
  • shyster
  • mountebank
  • pettifogger
  • pretender
  • knave
  • cozener
  • dodger
  • humbug
  • crook
  • defrauder
  • dissembler
  • bilk
  • sharper
  • shark
  • wolf in sheep's clothing
  • enticer
  • decoy
  • beguiler
  • phony
  • diddler
  • two-time
  • blackleg
  • con artist
  • conman
  • fourflusher
  • cardsharp
  • flimflammer
  • flimflam man
  • bunco artist
  • grifter
  • criminal
  • rascal
  • faker
  • forger
  • plagiarist.
  
  
  
  
  

​Rover

[emsr2d2]

Could you let me know?

Thanks!

JY

Why do you think there is such a word? Did you hear it somewhere? Can you post a link or give us an attempt at the whole sentence?


The only word I can think of that even starts like that is "hustler" (which I'm surprised didn't appear in the synonyms list).

[BobK]

That's a good possibility. Another is Rhyming Slang - but it's not a very good 'rhyme': Hudson River/conniver. Perhaps the coiner repaired the rhyme by misspelling 'conniver' as 'conivver'. (This is getting very interesting. Interesting but stupid. )

b

PS Didn't Paul Hudson* play a swindler in The Hustler? And of course there was The Sting.

PPS* Hudson Schmudson. It was that other bisyllabic actor, Paul Newman.

[emsr2d2]

That's a good possibility. Another is Rhyming Slang - but it's not a very good 'rhyme': Hudson River/conniver. Perhaps the coiner repaired the rhyme by misspelling 'conniver' as 'conivver'. (This is getting very interesting. Interesting but stupid. )

b

PS Didn't Paul Hudson play a swindler in The Hustler? And of course there was The Sting.

Conniver rhyming slang? Very inventive but I have to say extremely unlikely.

I've never heard of Paul Hudson. Paul Newman was in The Hustler (and The Sting).

[Jiayun]

Thanks all. I think it's hustler. Heard it from the movie called the colour of the money.

[emsr2d2]

Thanks all. I think it's hustler. Heard it from the movie called the colour of the money.

Well, The Color of Money starring Tom Cruise is based on The Hustler which starred Paul Newman. Paul Newman also gets to be in The Color of Money. Therefore, I think it's very likely that you heard the word "hustler". It's mentioned several times in the film if I remember rightly.

[BobK]

Well, The Color of Money starring Tom Cruise is based on The Hustler which starred Paul Newman. Paul Newman also gets to be in The Color of Money. Therefore, I think it's very likely that you heard the word "hustler". It's mentioned several times in the film if I remember rightly.

Aha. Scary - my 'mistake' was not really a mistake at all, but somehow meant...

b

PS I haven't seen the more recent film - which gives all the more support to my 'crease in the time-space continuum' theory