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12 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
originEtymology tree English extortion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English extortionist From extortion + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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