Word Meanings - THIMBLERIGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

Related words: (words related to THIMBLERIGGER)

• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• THIMBLERIGGER
  One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
• LEGERDEMAINIST
  One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• LEGERDEMAIN
  Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.
• TRICKSINESS
  The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.