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chiseler
chiseler
English
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Noun
chiseler (plural chiselers)
- One who uses a chisel for carving.
- (informal) A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
- 1941, Groucho Marx, The Big Store (movie)
- [Of course $20,000 is too much.] Only a cheap chiseler would ask that much.
- 1941, Groucho Marx, The Big Store (movie)
- (informal, Ireland, 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang) A child.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Ch. 6
- --Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Ch. 6