snapper up
Britishnoun
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He is a snapper up of unconsidered trifles, I'll be bound.
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
Autolycus, aw-tol′i-kus, n. a thief: a snapper up of unconsidered trifles: a plagiarist.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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