amuser

suomi-englanti sanakirja

amuser englanniksi

  1. Someone who amuses.

  2. One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.

  3. One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.

  4. {{quote-book|en|year=1993|author=Stella Cameron|title=Only by Your Touch|publisher=HarperCollins|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=VrApHV_ZWg8C&q=%22amuser%22search_anchor|page=88

  5. 2002, various authors, ''Gangs of New York'' (film), Miramax Films, Entertainment Film Distributors:

  6. BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
  7. {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Michelle Lovric|title=The Remedy|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7thXKF_Tn7oC&pg=PT59&dq=%22amusers%22v=onepage|page=59|publisher=Bloomsbury

  8. to amuse, to entertain

  9. to fun, to oneself

  10. (rfdef)