chiseler

English

Etymology tree

Late Latin cīsōrium

Old French cisoir

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Old French -el

Old French cisel

Anglo-Norman chiselbor.

Middle English chisel

English chisel

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English chiseler

From chisel + -er.

chiseler (plural chiselers)

One who uses a chisel for carving.
(informal) A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
- 1941, Groucho Marx, The Big Store (movie)
  [Of course $20,000 is too much.] Only a cheap chiseler would ask that much.
(informal, Ireland, 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang) A child.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 6]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  --Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.

person who carves using a chisel