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Sharpie means (colloquial) An alert person..
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/ˈʃɑɹpi/ · noun
(colloquial) An alert person..
Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?" Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. "You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do."
You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years.
1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best, Field & Stream, page 78, Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie. In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement.
Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.
He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.
On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies. The earliest sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore.
It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies, but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.
My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie.
Use sharpie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sharpie means (colloquial) An alert person..
Common synonyms include sharp, eager beaver, swindler, chiseler.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?" Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. "You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do."
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