Goldbrick in Hindi — Meaning of धोखा देना (dhokha dena)

📖 Meaning of “goldbrick”

The meaning of “goldbrick” in Hindi is धोखा देना, pronounced dhokha dena — it is a verb. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.

🔠 All meanings in Hindi

dhokha dena (verb) धोखा देना

(verb) छल से लूट लेना

📘 Definition of goldbrick

avoid (one's assigned duties)

✍️ Goldbrick in a sentence

Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.

उसने हमें धोखा दिया।

🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)

From gold + brick, originally (1850s) an actual gold ingot or brick, later a swindle that consisted of selling a putative gold brick, which was only coated in gold. The swindle is attested from 1879, the sense “to swindle” is attested 1902, and the sense “to shirk” is attested 1914, popularized as World War I armed forces slang. In early 1900s, used to refer to an unattractive young woman – not pretty, nor able to talk or dance (attested 1903), thence to refer to incompetent enlisted troops at the start of World War I, reinforced by the rank insignia of second lieutenants, which was a gold rectangle.

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Word (English)

Goldbrick

Meaning in Hindi

धोखा देना

Pronunciation

dhokha dena

Part of speech

Verb

Category

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Word Origin (Etymology)

From gold + brick, originally (1850s) an actual gold ingot or brick, later a swindle that consisted of selling a putative gold brick, which was only coated in gold. The swindle is attested from 1879, the sense “to swindle” is attested 1902, and the sense “to shirk” is attested 1914, popularized as World War I armed forces slang. In early 1900s, used to refer to an unattractive young woman – not pretty, nor able to talk or dance (attested 1903), thence to refer to incompetent enlisted troops at the start of World War I, reinforced by the rank insignia of second lieutenants, which was a gold rectangle.

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The Hindi meaning of "goldbrick" is धोखा देना (dhokha dena).

In Devanagari script it is written as धोखा देना.

It is pronounced "dhokha dena". Tap the speaker icon on this page to hear it aloud.

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