four-flusher



four-flusher

n. a cheater. Bruno is a lousy four-flusher, among other unpleasant things.

four-flusher

A fraud, a bluffer. To hold a four flush in poker is to have four cards of the same suit but not the fifth card that would make a potentially winning hand. Since four of a suit is worthless, a “four-flusher” is gambling that you'll believe her or she has the goods or the right stuff. The suggestion that a four-flusher is so full of crap that getting all of it down the toilet will take four pulls of the handle is an imaginative but incorrect derivation of the phrase.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
D'artagnan-Literature
Gunne-Swedish, Norwegian
Sinjin-English (Rare)
Eutychios-Ancient Greek
Horacioo-RAH-thyo (Spanish), o-RAH-syo (Latin American Spanish)Spanish
Colleenkah-LEENEnglish