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charmer

British  
/ ˈtʃɑːmə /

noun

  1. an attractive person

  2. a person claiming or seeming to have magical powers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It took Barack Obama, another hall-of-fame charmer, to win back the White House in 2008.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

The ampersand, meanwhile, evolved over time from a jagged bit of Roman graffiti into the curly charmer we know today.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

A handy example of the latter is Daniel Mason’s satiric charmer “Country People.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The power of personality is important in politics and in Scottish Labour there is a sense that Andy Burnham is much more of a charmer than Sir Keir Starmer.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

“He wasn’t a ladies’ man or a charmer.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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