gonif

Questions about gonif

What does gonif mean?

gonif means "(Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)".

How many syllables are in gonif?

gonif has 2 syllables and divides as go-nif under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gonif?

Close synonyms include goniff, ganef, ganof. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gonif a common word?

gonif is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.