rook vs short-change

rook is a noun but short-change is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rook	Yes	No	Yes	No
short-change	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, rook and short-change are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of rook include bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, swindle, victimize.

As verbs, short-change is a hyponym of rook; that is, short-change is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rook:

Other hyponyms of rook include short.

rook (noun)	short-change (noun)
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

rook (verb)	short-change (verb)
deprive of by deceit	cheat someone by not returning him enough money
	deprive of by deceit