| 词汇 | swartwout |
| 词源 | Swartwout. Samuel Swartwout (1783–1856), collector of the port of New York in Andrew Jackson’s administration, stole more than $1 million of public funds and fled to England. Thus Swartwout came to mean an embezzler and to Swartwout to embezzle or abscond. |
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