Language Analysis of Afton. 1  The name Afton has 2 syllables. 2  The name Afton begins with the letter A. 3  Baby names that sound like Afton: Abdon. Abdone.  Baby names that are similar to Afton: Aaron. Aarone.
swindle. 1  to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets. 2  to obtain by fraud or deceit. 3  to put forward plausible schemes or use unscrupulous trickery to defraud others; cheat. 4  an act of swindling or a fraudulent transaction or scheme. 5  anything deceptive; a fraud: This advertisement is a real swindle.
[B]lack senses probably fr[om] the fact that black slaves sang and shouted gleefully during corn-shucking season, and this behavior, along with lying and teasing, became a part of the protective and evasive behavior normally adopted towards white people in traditional race relations; the sense of swindle is perhaps related to the mid-1800s term to be shucked out, be defeated, be denied victory, which suggests that the notion of stripping someone as an ear of corn is stripped may be ...