pettus (patoos) -noun
Pettus is an Estonian word for fraud or crime. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of fraud is:
- a. specifically: intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right
b. an act of deceiving or misrepresenting - a. a person who is not what he or she pretends to be
b. one that is not what it seems or is represented to be