magsman
Britishnoun
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a raconteur
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a confidence trickster
Example Sentences
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My friend Magsman, I'll impart to you a discovery I've made.
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The neighbors cut up rough, and made complaints; but Mr. Magsman don't know what they all would have had.
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This gent took on not to know me, and Mr. Chops said: "Gentlemen, this is an old friend of former days"; and Normandy looked at me through a eyeglass, and said, "Magsman, glad to see ye!" which I'll take my oath, he wasn't.
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When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kept me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers: "I ain't 'appy, Magsman."
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He rubs his eye-brows with his toes, and he says: "I can't imagine, Mr. Magsman"—which he never could imagine nothin', and was monotonous company.
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