chiseler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one who carves with a chisel, or informally a swindler

   That chiseler shorted us on every measurement.

From chisel + -er. Chisel derives from Old French cisel (modern ciseau), ultimately from Late Latin *cisellum, related to caedere ('to cut'). The slang 'swindler' sense arose in 19th-century American English.

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