chiselerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

chisel +‎ -er

名詞

chiseler (複数形 chiselers)

1. One who uses a chisel for carving.
2. (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.

3. (informal, Ireland, 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang) A child.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 6]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:

     --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.

同意語

• (くだけた用法: con artist): sharper, spiv

アナグラム

• Eichlers, Reichels, Reichles, rechisel