chiseler

chiselleft: cold metal chisel with a flat headtop to bottom: cape, round-nose, and diamond-point metal chisel heads

chis·el

C0309400 (chĭz′əl)n. A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal.v. chis·eled, chis·el·ing, chis·els or chis·elled or chis·el·ling v.tr.1. To shape or cut with a chisel.2. Informal a. To cheat or swindle.b. To obtain by deception.v.intr.1. To use a chisel.2. Informal a. To use unethical methods; cheat: "who's up, who's down and who's chiseling on the side" (James Reston).b. To intrude oneself without welcome: always tries to chisel in on our conversations.

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[Middle English, from Old French cisiel, from Vulgar Latin *cīsellus, cutting tool, from diminutive of Latin caesus, past participle of caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.]

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chis′el·er n.

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Noun

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chiseler - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraudchiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gougercard shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy - a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card gamesclip artist - a swindler who fleeces the victimcon artist, con man, confidence man - a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victimbeguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not truewelcher, welsher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager

chiseler

nounInformal. A person who cheats:bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer.Informal: crook, flimflammer.Slang: diddler, gyp, gypper.

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