magsman
Britishnoun
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a raconteur
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a confidence trickster
Example Sentences
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He spoke in the dialect of the pick-purse and magsman.
From Half A Chance by Frederic Stewart Isham
He knows every rook and welsher and every swell magsman, and all their haunts and habits.
From Half A Chance by Frederic Stewart Isham
"As true as that you are the greatest magsman on the earth, he told me so."
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue
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