enfirouaper

== French == === Alternative forms === enfirouâper === Etymology === Originally enfifrewâper, a nonce word coined in the Montreal newspaper Le Vrai Canard, in August, 1879. From Parisian slang word enfifrer (“to bugger (sodomize); to dupe”) + another verb, perhaps rouâper, a Québecois variant of râper (“to grate”). According to a widely accepted popular etymology (which has even been taken up by a number of reference books), the word comes from English in fur wrapped, but this phrase is almost nonexistent in English, not to mention that the expected phonological change would result in something like *enfirapper. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑ̃.fi.ʁwa.pe/ === Verb === enfirouaper (transitive) to scam, swindle, or trick someone [from late 19th c.] ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === Discussion page on French Wiktionary, on the subject of the origins of the term