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shicer|ˈʃaɪsə(r)|
Also schicer, shiser.
[a. G. scheisser ‘cacator, peditor’; hence = 1 below.]
1. slang. A worthless person. Also Austral. (? transf. from 2) a welsher, defaulter. Also, something worthless, a failure.
1846Swell's Night Guide 61 The shiser thinks to bounce us by flashing a shofel quid. 1859Hotten's Slang Dict. 227 Shicer, a mean man, a humbug—a person who is either worthless, or will not work. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences viii. 97 There are, of course, many what may be called technical terms in connection with the pursuit of mining... Such, for example, as ‘duffer’ or ‘shiser’, anything that is useless. 1887‘Hopeful’ Taken in 135 [New Zealand] If a man isn't ‘up to the mark’, he is called ‘a regular shicer’. 1896in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. s.v., Don't take his bet, he's a regular shicer. 1906O. C. Malvery Soul Market xvii. 290 A racecourse swindler or welsher is spoken of as a ‘shiser’. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xiv. 203 ‘The case is a ‘shicer’ already,’ replied Jack. ‘Hawley has given it up.’
2. Austral. An unproductive claim or mine.
1855Argus (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 6/1, 220 feet digging is no plaything just now, with the prospect of a schicer at such depths. 1859K. Cornwallis New World I. 219 We bought a hole..which those who originally sunk it had determined upon abandoning as a shicer. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xxxiv, The shaft..was an old shicer and pretty deep. |