From en.wiktionary.org:
[Sharpie]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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*** Noun
[wikipedia] [en-noun]
1. [en] An alert person.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1988 | author=D. Miller Morgan | title=A Lovely Night to Kill | page=64
|passage=Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance,
selling magazines?"<br>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."}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Richard W. Munchkin | title=Gambling Wizards | page=109
|passage=You have to beat a lot of real SHARPIES, guys who have been playing
for years.}}
1. [en] A knowledgeable fisherman .
2. * 1976 December, Ken Schultz, _Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best_ , 吴语: Field & Stream , |%22sharpies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZugKT4zeIcmaiQfmo5meCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sharpie%22 | %22sharpies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 78 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yy8c1ML83cIC&pg=PA78&dq=%22sharpie%22) ,
3. *: Eventually DeBlasio became a SHARPIE .
4. *: 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.
5. [en] A swindler .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1953 | author=w:Raymond Chandler | title=The Long Goodbye | page=102 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2010
|passage=Three booths down a couple of SHARPIES were selling each other pieces
of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.}}
1. [en] A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1995 | author=Rodney Barfield | title=Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nogGYtdX7c0C&pg=PA168&dq=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UtUKT4iuIY7ymAWP7JmuAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=168
|passage=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.<br>The SHARPIE is a flat-bottomed,
shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=Greg Rössel | title=The Boatbuilder's Apprentice | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=JrslZpcyuxYC&pg=PA293&dq=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GJkKT4fNIeX7mAX1jOn0DA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=293
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] [en] .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=Bill Thompson; Eirik A. T. Blom; Jeffrey A. Gordon | title=Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-NulTz_-HbEC&pg=PT118&dq=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZccKT_SsJubImQXSn4gF&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=93
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2010 | author=Era S. VanDenburg | title=The Natural World of Ivy Lane | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yjxid9zuAO4C&pg=PA47&dq=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i-sKT92BObHimAWjluy1AQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=48
|passage=My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a
raiding SHARPIE.}}
1. [en] [en] .
2. * [en]
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4. [en] A member of a violent , fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2006 | author=Iain McIntyre | title=Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970 | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AGiu7Typ4iQC&pg=PA47&dq=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZccKT_SsJubImQXSn4gF&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22sharpie%22%7C%22sharpies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=47
|passage=The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular
SHARPIE hang-out.[...] SHARPIES were all deep drinkers.}}
1. A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen .
**** Translations
[felt-tipped marker pen]
*** Anagrams
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