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speiler
noun
a swindler AUSTRALIA, 1879- It was easy enough to back the winner, but the Gumtreeites find it a much more difficult matter to obtain their money. The “speilers” cluster together when the favourite wins, and the first backer of the winner, when he asks for his money, is politely told to wait, as an objection is about to be lodged. Of course, no objection is lodged, and the “speilers” determine to fight their way out of the difficulty. — Nat Gould, Town and Bush, p. 222, 1896
- They spoke of “speilers from the Bland”, And “champions from the Castlereagh”, And gave the youth to understand That all these would stop away, And spoil the race, if they should hear That they had got The Trap to fear. — A.B. Paterson, Rio Grande and Other Verses, p. 114, 1902
- The speiler likes to put a safe distance between himself and the butt of his jest–and he usually played for big stakes. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 90, 1960
- [C]ampbell Street, Surry Hills, was crowded with its usual clientele of speilers, gamblers, spivs, “jazz babies” and general crooks. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 151, 1966
- — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 125, 1979
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