Coin Diddlers

Zerbe

Anybody have an appropriate new name for coin doctors. 'Doctor' is too nice of a name for greedy crooks.

I pick Coin Diddler, as one of the definations shown below, is to hoax or swindle. Another definition of Diddler, I am told by my stepson, who works in the corrections department, is the name prisoners give fellow inmates who dawdle or fiddle with little children. I think Diddler would better describe our shady little 'friends'.<<<<< COIN DIDDLER>>>>>sounds good to me.


Main Entry: did·dle
Pronunciation: 'di-d&l
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): did·dled; did·dling /'did-li[ng], -d&l-i[ng]/
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1786
transitive senses
1 : chiefly dialect : to move with short rapid motions
2 : to waste (as time) in trifling
3 : HOAX, SWINDLE
4 : often vulgar : to copulate with
intransitive senses
1 : DAWDLE, FOOL
2 : FIDDLE, TOY — usually used with with <diddled with the machine until it broke>
- did·dler /'did-l&r, -d&l-&r/ noun

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baccaruda

now there's an old-timey, obsolete word. Thought it was gonna be some kind of reference to Edgar Allan Poe.

jeffnpcb

Tinkermen! The gypsy type guy who travels from town to town fixing your common metal products from around the house. While plugging, tooling and cleaning your coins, he can fix the wifes cook pots and pans!

paigowjohnny

<< <i>Anybody have an appropriate new name for coin doctors >>



jerks

Bear

Coin Butcher

nwcs

Here is a term that is just as accurate and has the proper connotation: Coin Adulterer.

agapaone

How about COIN TWITS.

Cam40

Lets not beat around the bush here. Call em such that they are.

Coin crooks.

Cam40

its a sad cruel reality of human nature I suppose. Where money is envolved,greed and deceit are often close behind.

gah,did I say that?......bet i wasnt the first.

VonZipper

How about COIN TONERS or TONERS for short.

dorkkarl

"doctor" is certainly an extremely poor choice of words - demeaning to doctors.

how about "coin lawyer"?

(yikes, hope anaconda doesn't see this!)

K S