Crossword clues for chiseler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chiseler \chiseler\, chiseller \chiseller\n. 1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
Syn: swindler, chiseler, gouger, sharper, sharpie, sharpy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, "one who works with a chisel," agent noun from chisel (v.). In slang sense of "swindler," attested from 1918.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who uses a chisel for carve. 2 (context informal English) A cheat; a swindler; a con artist. 3 (context informal Ireland 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang English) A child.
WordNet
Usage examples of "chiseler".
Certain cynics consider me a fanatic and a welfare chiseler, but they are the devil speaking.
Last of all came the camp followers: wives, daughters, mistresses, whores, beggars, chiselers, and grafters.
Did you let some information slip, so that some other gang of chiselers got wise and are trying to intrude?
Doc turned the messages over to Ham, who sent them down to the legal department of a law firm with which he was affiliated, with instructions to throw a scare into the chiselers, so that they might learn the mistake of trying such tactics.
They’re a bunch of chiselers trying to cut in on something, and they don’t care much who they bump off while doing it.
We must get chiselers off the taxpayer’s back and take drastic steps to control crime in the streets.
By all accounts, those two brothers are among the worst chiselers in the trade—which is saying something, given the standards of merchant seamen.
I'm becoming selfish in a way that's much more horrible than if I were some petty chiseler pinching pennies off these people's wages in a sweatshop!