English
swindleable
From swindle + -able.
Formed from swindle + -able
Proto-West Germanic *swindan ‘to diminish’
Old High German swintilōn
Middle High German swindeln
German schwindeln ‘to be dizzy’
German Schwindler ‘swindler, deceiver, fraud’
English swindle
Today it means
adj Able to be swindled.
Sources
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Etymograph / swindleable