paperhanger

noun
/ˈpeɪpəhæŋə/UK/ˈpeɪpɚhæŋɚ/US

Etymology

From paper + hanger.

  1. inherited from hanger
  2. compounded as paperhanger — “paper + hanger

Definitions

  1. Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.

    • No one in the street was aware than an Austrian paperhanger named Shickelgruber, and calling himself Hitler, had been arrested in Munich and thrown into jail.
  2. A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money

    A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paperhanger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA