See Nigerian prince on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Derived from early instances of advance fee scams in which the perpetrator of the scam would send potential victims an email claiming to be a Nigerian prince seeking to move a large amount of money into their country.", "forms": [ { "form": "Nigerian princes", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Nigerian prince (plural Nigerian princes)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "74 26", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "73 27", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "74 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "I fell for a Nigerian prince scam", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2012, Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations, CQ Press, page 219:", "text": "Today, in an increasingly interconnected world, a person is more likely to be robbed by a “Nigerian prince” on the Internet than a masked street thug.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A cheat who seeks to obtain money through advance fee scams" ], "id": "en-Nigerian_prince-en-noun-~-6hgsCL", "links": [ [ "cheat", "cheat" ], [ "advance fee scam", "advance fee scam" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Nigerian, prince." ], "id": "en-Nigerian_prince-en-noun-K7jXnGfV", "links": [ [ "Nigerian", "Nigerian#English" ], [ "prince", "prince#English" ] ], "related": [ { "_dis1": "9 91", "word": "Nigerian scam" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/naɪˌdʒɪəɹɪən ˈpɹɪns/" }, { "ipa": "/naɪˌdʒɪɹiən ˈpɹɪns/" } ], "wikipedia": [ "Advance-fee scam" ], "word": "Nigerian prince" }
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