magsmann.¹

Brit.

/ˈmaɡzmən/, U.S.

/ˈmæɡzmən/

Inflections: Plural magsmen.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mag n.³, man n.¹

Etymology: < the genitive of mag n.³ + man n.¹ E. Partridge describes a number of other low-life uses of the word in Dict. Underworld (1949) at cited word.

slang.

1. Originally British. (In recent use chiefly Australian and New Zealand exc. archaic.) A street swindler, a confidence trickster.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster

magsman1822

confidence man1849

con artist1878

con man1889

T.B.1912

payoff man1927

pay-off1928

samfie1929

1822 Bell's Life in London 9 June 119/3 A few—very few, gipsies, jockeys, mace coves, magsmen, and prigs, to make up the assortment.

1838 Town 27 Jan. 276 A magsman must of necessity be a great actor and a most studious observer of human nature.

1850 C. Dickens Detective Police Party in Househ. Words 27 July 411/1 Tally-ho Thompson was a famous horse-stealer, couper, and magsman.

1897 M. Davitt in Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 2/1 Almost every possible kind of convict, from the sneak-thief..to professional magsmen.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxii. 219 Andrew Hume, a magsman confidence-man (half-way through a ten-year stretch for forgery).

1972 N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel iii. 66 A bunch of smashers and grabbers or joy-buyers or magsmen or any of that lot.

1990 N. Annan Our Age ii. 24 Only Bohemians or the descendants of the Victorian magsmen, macers and gonophs..rejected the society into which they were born.

2. Australian. A storyteller, a raconteur.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] > writer or teller of anecdotes

storyteller1683

anecdotist?1760

raconteur1831

raconteuse1840

anecdotalist1868

personalist1876

anecdotard1880

magsman1924

1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Magsman, a talkative person.

1935 K. Tennant Tiburon 182 He became very anti-strikers when he discovered that the Magsman was the same Dennis Kelly.

1944 W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 56 We were discussing dreams... It was the Doc's subject and he was..‘giving it hell’. I let him go—with his complexes and repressions, but I was itching to have my say, for I too am a good ‘magsman’.

1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 Apr. 4/1 Hardy..became the official yarn-spinning champion of Australia today. He won the magsman's championship in Darwin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	magsman
释义	magsmann.¹ Brit. /ˈmaɡzmən/, U.S. /ˈmæɡzmən/ Inflections: Plural magsmen. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mag n.³, man n.¹ Etymology: < the genitive of mag n.³ + man n.¹ E. Partridge describes a number of other low-life uses of the word in Dict. Underworld (1949) at cited word. slang. 1. Originally British. (In recent use chiefly Australian and New Zealand exc. archaic.) A street swindler, a confidence trickster. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster magsman1822 confidence man1849 con artist1878 con man1889 T.B.1912 payoff man1927 pay-off1928 samfie1929 1822 Bell's Life in London 9 June 119/3 A few—very few, gipsies, jockeys, mace coves, magsmen, and prigs, to make up the assortment. 1838 Town 27 Jan. 276 A magsman must of necessity be a great actor and a most studious observer of human nature. 1850 C. Dickens Detective Police Party in Househ. Words 27 July 411/1 Tally-ho Thompson was a famous horse-stealer, couper, and magsman. 1897 M. Davitt in Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 2/1 Almost every possible kind of convict, from the sneak-thief..to professional magsmen. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxii. 219 Andrew Hume, a magsman confidence-man (half-way through a ten-year stretch for forgery). 1972 N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel iii. 66 A bunch of smashers and grabbers or joy-buyers or magsmen or any of that lot. 1990 N. Annan Our Age ii. 24 Only Bohemians or the descendants of the Victorian magsmen, macers and gonophs..rejected the society into which they were born. 2. Australian. A storyteller, a raconteur. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] > writer or teller of anecdotes storyteller1683 anecdotist?1760 raconteur1831 raconteuse1840 anecdotalist1868 personalist1876 anecdotard1880 magsman1924 1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Magsman, a talkative person. 1935 K. Tennant Tiburon 182 He became very anti-strikers when he discovered that the Magsman was the same Dennis Kelly. 1944 W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 56 We were discussing dreams... It was the Doc's subject and he was..‘giving it hell’. I let him go—with his complexes and repressions, but I was itching to have my say, for I too am a good ‘magsman’. 1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 Apr. 4/1 Hardy..became the official yarn-spinning champion of Australia today. He won the magsman's championship in Darwin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1822
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