confidence man vs gouger

confidence man and gouger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confidence man	Yes	No	No	No
gouger	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gouger is a hypernym of confidence man; that is, gouger is a word with a broader meaning than confidence man:

Other hypernyms of confidence man include chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler.

confidence man (noun)	gouger (noun)
a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim	a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
	an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye