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chiseler

chiseler noun: one who uses a chisel for carving.

Noun

chiseler (plural chiselers)

  1. One who uses a chisel for carving.
  2. (informal) A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
    • [Of course $20,000 is too much.] Only a cheap chiseler would ask that much.1941, Groucho Marx, The Big Store (movie)
    Synonyms:
    sharper
  3. (Ireland, informal, 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang) A child.
    • --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 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Synonyms of chiseler

Forms of chiseler

pluralchiselers
alternative formchiseller

Origin of chiseler

From chisel + -er.

Questions about chiseler

What does chiseler mean?
Chiseler means one who uses a chisel for carving.
What part of speech is chiseler?
Chiseler is a noun.
What is the plural of chiseler?
The plural of chiseler is chiselers.

Words near chiseler in the dictionary

  1. Chiseldon
  2. chiseled
  3. chiseled in
  4. chiseled out
  5. chiseled up
  6. chiseler
  7. chiselers
  8. chiseling
  9. chiseling in
  10. chiseling out
  11. chiseling up

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