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Definition of Chicaner
1. n. One who uses chicanery.
Definition of Chicaner
1. one that chicanes [n -S] - See also: chicanes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicaner
Literary usage of Chicaner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Ce procureur ne fait que chicaner, this solicitor contends for trifles — will
make the most ... chicaner sa vie, to contend f.ir one's life to the last. ..."
2. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon (1821)
"chicaner le vent, Mar. to hug the wind too close. Sans chicaner le vent, ...
UR, sm chicaner, splitter of causes , caviller or quarrelsome knave at l. ..."
3. Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Improvements of the Latest by Abel Boyer (1849)
"chicaner Is vent, Mar. to bug the wind too close. ... a. an. chicaner, splitter
of causes, caviller or quarrelsome knave at law, pettifogger, litigious man. ..."
4. A New Pocket Dictionary of the English and French Languages by J. E. Wessely (1892)
"chicaner, —I, va A n. to cavil, to wrangle cavil; chercher — à, to pick a trumpery
Choeur, ieur, ... f. chicaner, tra; —ment, ad. caviller, -wrangler. ..."
5. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"Pou'gua? faire de vous chicaner? J'ai une de mes sœurs en bas, qui est sept fois
plus belle que moi. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"certain periods of the game of golf suggests how the figurative meaning of chicaner
might arise in taking advantage of the petty accidents of the surface. ..."
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