goniff

English Thesaurus

1. (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) (noun.person)

hypernym	:	offender, wrongdoer,
definition	:	a person who transgresses moral or civil law (noun.person)

domain category	:	yiddish,
definition	:	a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script (noun.communication)