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Definition of shicer in English: shicernoun ˈʃʌɪsə Australian, NZ dated, informal 1A worthless thing or person, especially a swindler. 〈澳,非正式〉无耻的人;无用的东西;骗子 Synonyms swindler, charlatan, mountebank, confidence trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, racketeer, hoaxer, sharper, rogue, villain, scoundrel - 1.1Mining An unproductive claim or mine.
〔矿〕不产矿的矿藏(或矿区) Example sentencesExamples - The unsuccessful diggers would declare their holes blanks, duffers, or shicers, and dedicate them to the Queen.
- To keep friends with such a cast of mind, whose motto is Nelson's, you must do your duty; never mind if you sink a shicer, bottom your shaft any how.
- 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.
OriginMid 19th century: from German Scheisser 'contemptible person'. |