Etymograph

English

gazunder

Blend of gazump + under.

A blend of gazump + under

Yiddish גזלן ‘thief, bandit’

English gazump

Proto-Germanic *under ‘under, beneath; among’

Proto-West Germanic *undar ‘under’

Old English under ‘under, beneath’

Middle English under

English under

Today it means

verb To swindle by making an offer on a property under the false pretense of good faith but then reducing the offer (normally just before contracts are exchanged), knowing that the threat of collapsing the property chain is likely to force the seller into accepting the amount of loss that they were cheated out of.

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Etymograph / gazunder