Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Irish) a child.

1922		Joyce Ulysses 91: Reuben J. and son were piking it down the quay next the river [...] and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.
1925		S. O’Casey Juno and the Paycock Act I: Buks only fit for chiselurs!
1929		B. Duffy Rocky Road 144: I’m the chiseler that can show yez.
1939		(con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 176: Go on, Fred, give the cheeky chiselur a crack across the snot.
1939		‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 261: I never had such gas since I was a chiseller.
1942		(con. 1890s) S. O’Casey Pictures in the Hallway 55: Looka the poor Mulligans, with their four chiselurs down with the measles.
1943		‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Faustus Kelly in ‘Flann O’Brien’ Stories & Plays (1973) 125: Filling the heads of a lot of poor chisellers.
1945		(con. 1900s) S. O’Casey Drums Under the Windows 45: Must peel the spuds for the chiselurs’ dinner.
1961		(con. 1930s) D. Behan Teems of Times and Happy Returns 166: That act doesn’t cut any ice since he put one down on a roasting gas-ring ... ‘Poor chiseller bears the mark on his arse to this day.’.
1963		L. Daiken Out Goes She 9: The jingles hold atmosphere more real than many a flesh-and-blood personage [...] at whom no Dublin chisler will ever gape again. [Ibid.] 21: Your Dublin chiseller is the salt of the earth.
1965		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Confessions 209: As a chiseler, I had watched many exciting [soccer] matches in Ireland.
1970		C. Brown Down All the Days 28: ‘Still and all, for the sake of the chisellers, I mean,’ said the brown-booted kindly man.
1979		H. Leonard A Life (1981) Act II: An’ the fizz-bags the chiselurs could buy for a ha’penny.
1982		E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 48: He was a devil for plucking out the eye and offering it to chisellers on the palm of his dirty hand.
1994		J. O’Connor Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 85: The Old Days When Chizzellers Had To Make Their Own Fun.
1995		A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 138: Mumu had gone very red and said it was quite unsuitable reading for a chissler.
1995		P.O’Keeffe Down Cobbled Streets, A Liberties Childhood 122: He’s only a chisseler, Ma’am.
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Chiseller (n): young child.
2009		T. Black Gutted 212: Did ye ever, when ye were a chiseller, catch a wasp in a bottle?