Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who practises the trick of thimblerig; a low trickster or sharper. Also thimbleman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Examples
“There is a tide in the affairs of men when you simply have to chuck it - as, for example, when you learn that the wife of your unsuspecting bosom is a practised thimblerigger who has used her flash arts to ruin an innocent man.”
“If in the ordinary category of skittle sharper or thimblerigger," with a suspicion of mild scorn, "then I do not imagine your ladyship would find much attraction in the present cargo.”
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