30 December 2015

shicer

[shahy-ser]

noun, Australian.

1. Slang. a swindler.
2. any unscrupulous person.

Origin of shicer

German
1850-1855; German Scheisser, equivalent to scheiss (en) to shit + -er -er1

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Historical Examples

A ‘ shicer ‘ is first a mining claim which turns out to be useless, and then anything that does so.
Town Life in Australia
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

‘I think the practical miner, who had been hard at work night and day, for the last four or six months, and, after all, had just bottomed a shicer, objected to the tax itself, because he could not possibly afford to pay it’.
The Eureka Stockade
Raffaelo Carboni
1927

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