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What do you call someone that gives you something then askes for it back?

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What do you call someone that gives you something then askes for it back?

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  1. Indian giver.


  2. Rude actually...once they give something to you, it's yours and asking for it back is inappropriate.

    However the common term for someone who does that is "Indian giver".

    ""Indian" was once used by the white man as an all-purpose adjective signifying "bogus" or "false," owing to the supposedly low morals of the red man. Thus you had "Indian summer," false summer late in the year; "Indian corn" and "Indian tea," cheap substitutes for products the original colonists had known back in England; and "Indian giver," someone who gives you something and then takes it back.

    But of course Europeans were the real Indian givers, repeatedly promising the Indians reservations by treaty and then stealing them back once valuable farmland or minerals were found. The term has thus inadvertently become an acid commentary on the character of its inventors."

  3. An Indian Giver.

    I'd ask why they gave it to me in the first place, then request they never give me anything else.

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