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chiseller

chiseller is the alternative spelling of chiseler.

Meaning of chiseler

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

Forms of chiseller

pluralchisellers

Questions about chiseller

What is chiseller the alternative spelling of?
Chiseller is the alternative spelling of chiseler.

Words near chiseller in the dictionary

  1. chiselings
  2. chiselled
  3. chiselled in
  4. chiselled out
  5. chiselled up
  6. chiseller
  7. chisellers
  8. chisellike
  9. chiselling
  10. chiselling in
  11. chiselling out

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