An artful swindler; a clever, seedy vagabond, borrowing money or obtaining credit by his wit and wits. From Kenny’s farce called Raising the Wind.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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