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chiseler en · NOUN

Etymology

From chisel + -er.

Meanings

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)
3. (Ireland, informal, qualifier: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

Synonyms

spiv · sharper (informal: con artist)

Translations (9)

fr ciseleur (person who carves using a chisel) · it cesellatore (person who carves using a chisel) · sv ciselör (person who carves using a chisel) · pt cinzelador (person who carves using a chisel) · es cincelador (person who carves using a chisel) · ro gravor (person who carves using a chisel) · de Ziseleur (person who carves using a chisel) · ro dăltuitor (person who carves using a chisel) · ca cisellador (person who carves using a chisel)