Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who works with a chisel; one who carves, cuts, or shapes with a chisel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who uses a chisel for carving.
  • noun informal A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
  • noun informal, Ireland A child.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Etymologies

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to chisel + -er

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Examples

  • He was a cheap crook and what used to be called a chiseler.

    Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001

  • The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.

    Lorelei 2010

  • You want to call him a chiseler instead of a cheat, fine.

    Matthew Yglesias » Confirmation Trouble and Tax Reform 2009

  • The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.

    Lorelei 2010

  • The chiseler fell in love, even if only for five minutes.

    Lorelei 2010

  • Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."

    The Gastronomica Reader Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010

  • My point was that Beck, a lazy chiseler, had done the literary equivalent of buying a term paper on line, and that the bottom feeder who'd sold it to him had sold it elsewhere before.

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • My point was that Beck, a lazy chiseler, had done the literary equivalent of buying a term paper online, and that the bottom feeder who'd sold it to him had sold it elsewhere before.

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."

    The Gastronomica Reader Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010

  • Dolowich was a petty chiseler from the Lower East Side who in 1929 aspired to become the Al Capone of a "syrup trust."

    The Gastronomica Reader Aram Bakshian Jr. 2010

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