angler

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡlə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡlɚ/
• Rhymes: -æŋɡlə(ɹ)

angler (plural anglers)

1. A person who fishes with a hook and line.

   A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.

2. An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.

   The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.

3. Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.

   Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.

4. (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
   • c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell:

     They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people.

   • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood‎, volume 2, Oath of the Canting Crew, pages 339–340:

     Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer, / Irish Toyle, or other wanderer; / No dimber damber, angler, dancer, / Prig of cackler, prig of prancer

• (person who fishes with hook and line): fisher, fisherman
• (angler fish): anglerfish, frogfish
• (someone with a scheme or ulterior motive): conniver, grifter, schemer, swindler
• (thief): hooker, nuthook

• angling

• “angler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue, available from Project Gutenberg
• 1812 Dictionary of fishing Tongue, new fishing tips share
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “angler”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 39.
• John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890), “angler”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 54–55.

• Langer, Nagler, Nergal, Rangel, erlang, gen'ral, langer, largen, rangle, regnal

From angle +‎ -er.

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angler

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• “angler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.