illywhacker

Noun.  (Australia, colloquial) A person who is a small-time confidence trickster or seller of trinkets. This is long obsolete and the exact original sense is thought to be lost. (Reference: ''The Dinkum Dictionary : The Origins of Australian Words'', Susan Butler, Text Publishing, 2001, ISBN 187648585X.).

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