You can picture swindle as the moment the victim hands it over. Nothing is grabbed and nothing is taken behind anyone's back — someone believed a story, and paid because of it.
From the word’s history
A back-formation from swindler, borrowed from German Schwindler; the German verb schwindeln goes back to Old High German swintan, a root about diminishing or wasting away.
資料上寫的是：swindle 是從 swindler（騙子）倒回去造出來的。swindler 借自德文 Schwindler，動詞 schwindeln 再往前是古高地德語 swintan，那一支的意思跟「變少、衰退」有關。有意思的是，這個字是先有「騙子」才有「騙」這個動作，剛好呼應它的核心：先有一個人編故事，才有東西被交出去。
Packet Wiktionary etymology for 'swindle' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:931872377:39778): 'Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln... from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of the verb swintan, from Proto-West Germanic *swindan ("to diminish").'
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