hornswoggler

English

Etymology

hornswoggle +‎ -er

Noun

hornswoggler (plural hornswogglers)

1. Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
   • 1996, Stephen Marlowe, The death and life of Miguel de Cervantes: a novel, page 196:

     Drawing and quartering was too good for that evil little hornswoggler who had hoodwinked two deys and the entire populace of Algiers, Gimp the Greek included.

   • 1992, Deborah Digges, Fugitive Spring: A Memoir, page 109:

     All day you would be hornswoggler. You would be it in every game of tag or hide-and-seek, a spectacle of selfishness, ostracized, a dream smasher, the last to be served at supper, the last, before bed, whose prayers were heard.

   • 1990, Terry Griggs, Quickening, page 131:

     The Old Viper's an old cheater, an old hornswoggler.