HTTP/2 200
date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:23:06 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-security-policy-report-only: default-src 'self';img-src 'self' data: https://flickr.com https://*.flickr.com https://s.gravatar.com https://s.gravatar.com/avatar https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar https://i1.wp.com/cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://g.stripe.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/ https://farm66.static.flickr.com https://www.google-analytics.com https://tpc.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.amazon-adsystem.com https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://*.3lift.com https://ams-pageview-public.s3.amazonaws.com https://www.google.com https://syndication.twitter.com https://image8.pubmatic.com https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.googleusercontent.com;base-uri 'self';font-src 'self' https: data:;frame-ancestors 'self';frame-src https://js.stripe.com https://platform.twitter.com/ https://syndication.twitter.com/ https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://www.google.com/ https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/;connect-src 'self' https: https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ppub_config https://bam.nr-data.net/events/1/cb925c8058;object-src none;script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' report-sample https://js.stripe.com/v3/ https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validate.js/0.13.1/validate.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.3/underscore-min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/list.js/1.5.0/list.min.js https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js https://www.googletagmanager.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js https://js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-spa-1184.min.js https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://bam.nr-data.net https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://www.googletagservices.com https://adservice.google.com https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tether/1.4.0/js/tether.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/clipboard@2.0.8/dist/clipboard.min.js https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/howler/2.1.1/howler.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validator/10.9.0/validator.min.js https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.googlesyndication.com/ https://platform.twitter.com/js/ https://cdn.ampproject.org https://www.google-analytics.com https://adservice.google.be https://adservice.google.ca https://adservice.google.co.id https://adservice.google.co.mz https://adservice.google.co.th https://adservice.google.co.uk https://adservice.google.co.za https://adservice.google.com.au https://adservice.google.com.ec https://adservice.google.com.hk https://adservice.google.com.ng https://adservice.google.com.np https://adservice.google.com.ph https://adservice.google.com.sa https://adservice.google.de https://adservice.google.es https://adservice.google.fi https://adservice.google.fr https://adservice.google.ie https://adservice.google.it https://adservice.google.lk https://adservice.google.lt https://adservice.google.nl https://adservice.google.no https://adservice.google.rs https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net;script-src-attr none;style-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline' report-sample;report-uri https://5f9d927665d1a16209ba908c.endpoint.csper.io
x-dns-prefetch-control: off
expect-ct: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
x-download-options: noopen
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin
x-xss-protection: 0
etag: W/"13217-9d2g56988XUzuKPvSsnsFdSe8a0"
set-cookie: cookienik=eyJjc3JmU2VjcmV0IjoidDJpNFczUXd2ZHF1V3JEUW9qQ1VfakhvIn0=; path=/; expires=Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:23:06 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
set-cookie: cookienik.sig=lcuIf5zzwbOttoITYaGmQPHjx5Y; path=/; expires=Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:23:06 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-encoding: gzip
chiseler - definition and meaning
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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
to chisel + -er
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word chiseler .
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
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.