Reverse Dictionary: IMPOSTOR

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABUSER a person who perverts truth or abuses confidence; a deceiver or impostor → 1579 obs.
► BITE a sharper, a swindler, a cheat, a trickster, an impostor → 1698 obs. (Bk.)
► BLUFF an impostor; a deceiver, one who bluffs → M19 sl.
► BUNYIP an impostor → 1852 Aust.
► CAFARD a hypocrite, an impostor → 1539 obs.
► CHUFFER a deceiver, a cheat, an impostor → 1500 obs.
► COZENER a deceiver, a cheat, an impostor → 1575
► DEADBEAT an impostor or pretender; a fraud; a cheat → 1873 Amer. sl.
► FACTOR a cheat or impostor; a fraudulent fortune-teller → 16C UK criminals’ sl.
► FAITOUR ► FATER ► FAYTER an impostor, a cheat; a vagrant who shams illness or pretends to tell fortunes → a1340 obs.
► FAKE an impostor; broadly, an affected or insincere person → 1886 Amer sl.
► FLAT-CATCHER an impostor → 1823 sl.
► FUDGE an impostor, humbug → 1794
► HALTER-CARRIER an impostor; in the early days if a horse escaped and followed a trail back, the people who lived along the way boarded the owner free of charge until he had found the horse; men who wanted to return to Kentucky or Ohio made their way easily, therefore, by carrying a bridle or halter as if they were looking for a horse → 1912 Amer. dial.
► HINGKAPONK ► HINKAPONK an impostor, or deceiver → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HUMBUG a person who practises deception; an impostor → 1804
► IMPOSITOR an impostor → 1916 Amer. dial.
► IMPOSTRESS a female impostor → 1614
► IMPOSTRIX a female impostor → 1655 obs.
► JAPER a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor → 1362 obs.
► MOUNCH PRESENT a ‘maunche present’; a term of contempt for: a slanderer; a cheat; an impostor; a glutton → 1440 obs.
► NAIL an impostor; a cheat; one who ‘takes in’ another → 1874 Eng. dial.
► OPERATOR a cheat, an impostor, a quacksalver → 1611
► PERKIN a pretender or impostor, esp. to a throne or to some high position → 1673
► PERKIN WARBECK a pretender or impostor, esp. to a throne or to some high position → 1641
► POT-WALLOPER a fool, a stupid person; also, an impostor, an upstart → 1820 derogatory
► QUIRK a cheat; an impostor → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAP a cheat, an impostor; a person of bad character → 1848 Sc. & Ireland
► RINGER an outsider or intruder; a phoney person or thing; an impostor;  a person who attaches himself or herself to a political or other group to which he or she does not belong, or who votes in a district where he or she does not reside → 1896 US
► SCALLAWAG ► SCALLOWAG ► SCALLYWAG an impostor or intriguer, especially in politics; a corrupt politician; in U.S. Hist., a native white of the southern states who was willing to accept the terms of Reconstruction after the US Civil War (1861-5) → 1864
► SCHLENT an impostor → 1920s sl.
► SYCOPHANT an impostor, a deceiver → 1589 obs.