chancer
A scheming opportunist.
Noun
- A scheming opportunist.
- Actually, that's exactly what O'Dowd is doing in Get Shorty, presenting a taciturn thug with chewed up charm, a chancer pitching a movie in Hollywood. - 2018 June 6, Peter Crawley, “Get Shorty: Chris O’Dowd as a...
- From then on, Emin became fixed in many minds as the drunken chancer who boasted about her promiscuity and called it art. - 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want...
Origin
Etymology tree English chance Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chancer From chance + -er.