cheat vs goldbrick

goldbrick vs cheat

cheat and goldbrick both are nouns.

cheat and goldbrick both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No
goldbrick	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, goldbrick is a hyponym of cheat; that is, goldbrick is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheat:

cheat: deprive somebody of something by deceit
goldbrick: deprive of by deceit

Other hyponyms of cheat include gazump, cozen, fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize, gip, gyp, bilk, beat, bunk, whipsaw, welch, welsh, beguile, hoodwink, juggle.

cheat (noun)	goldbrick (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	an idle worthless person
weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous	a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

cheat (verb)	goldbrick (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	avoid (one's assigned duties)
deprive somebody of something by deceit	deprive of by deceit
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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