külahçı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish كلاهجی (külahcı, “maker or seller of conical hats”), equivalent to külah (“coif, conical hat”) + -çı.
Noun
[edit]külahçı (definite accusative külahçıyı, plural külahçılar)
- maker or seller of conical hats
- (figuratively) cheater, scammer, fraud
- Synonym: dolandırıcı
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külahçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2887