On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:00, Scott Eisenberg <sco...@btrtrucks.com> wrote:

> Certainly 'nuff said on this "chancer" (whatever that is :-)) for now.

Heh.  I had to go look it up too.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chancer says:

===8<---cut here---

British
: a scheming opportunist

Examples of CHANCER

    <a two-faced chancer, he doesn't hesitate to dump people when they
are no longer of any use>
    <betrayed by a chancer who, she mistakenly thought, was her friend>

First Known Use of CHANCER
1959

Related to CHANCER

Synonyms: chameleon, acrobat [British], opportunist, temporizer,
timeserver, trimmer, weathercock

Related Words: egoist, egotist, self-seeker; conniver, machinator,
plotter, schemer

Near Antonyms: altruist


===8<---cut here---

Truly we are two (and then some) nations divided by a common language....

-Dave

-- 
Dave Aronson:  Available Cleared Ruby on Rails Freelancer
(NoVa/DC/Remote) -- see www.DaveAronson.com, and blogs at
www.Codosaur.us, www.Dare2XL.com, www.RecruitingRants.com

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby 
on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

Reply via email to