Definition of "hornswoggler"

Drawing and quartering was too good for that evil little hornswoggler who had hoodwinked two deys and the entire populace of Algiers, Gimp the Greek included.

1996, Stephen Marlowe, The death and life of Miguel de Cervantes: a novel, page 196

All day you would be hornswoggler. You would be it in every game of tag or hide-and-seek, a spectacle of selfishness, ostracized, a dream smasher, the last to be served at supper, the last, before bed, whose prayers were heard.

1992, Deborah Digges, Fugitive Spring: A Memoir, page 109

The Old Viper's an old cheater, an old hornswoggler.

1990, Terry Griggs, Quickening, page 131