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magsman; maggs-man noun- a confidence trickster whose prime device is conversation AUSTRALIA, 1877
- Then I began to suspect I’d seen one of them on the wharf, and I realized they must have robbed me. A magsman and a pickpocket. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 29, 1956
- a talkative person; a raconteur AUSTRALIA, 1924
- A couple of guards at Goulburn were the greatest maggs-men I ever met. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, 1969
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