Timeline for Who is one who participates in skulduggery?
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 5:51 | comment | added | user105839 | Interesting side-bar: Skulduggery seems to have Germanic sources. The Lord's Prayer in German and Swedish (or Norwegian) appears to say: Forgive us our skulduggery (skuldiggern) as we forgive those who skuldig (or some similar word) against us. So, originally it meant to sin or to trespass. Not necessarily any trickery or Nixonian plots. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 23:21 | comment | added | itsbruce | +1, @PeterShor. Let's not forget the word for somebody who commits buggery, while we're at it. So to speak. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:43 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Oldcat: and somebody who commits trickery is a trickerer, while somebody who commits forgery is an forgerer? I thought the words were trickster and forger. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:17 | comment | added | Oldcat | The usual construction when making such a word would be "skulduggerer". Just as someone who commits adultery is an adulterer. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:09 | vote | accept | rtroberts | ||
| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:07 | answer | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 19:42 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | If you mean 'what is the agent noun corresponding to skulduggery', I'd say that the fact that the OED (if you really mean the OED and not one of its smaller relatives) doesn't give one is a strong argument that there isn't such a word. There are plenty of synonyms for shyster with a wide variety of connotations to choose from. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @ermanen: oic. I'll leave it for a bit, otherwise what we're saying now might look even more odd. I don't yet have an opinion regarding whether/why it might be OT, so I guess I'm open to persuasion either way. Might it be relevant that I get the impression from OED that it's a variant of an earlier "nonce word" sculduddery? | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 19:00 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @ermanen: Given we're supposed to be linguists, etymologists, and {serious} English language enthusiasts, we should all either know the word already, or be able to easily look it up. And given there are apparently no words etymologically related to skulduggery, I can't see what good it would do for OP to offer any such links as evidence of "prior research". | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:42 | comment | added | Joe Dark | Swindler or con-artist. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:32 | history | asked | rtroberts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |