different between pilferer vs cracksman

English

pilfer +? -er

pilferer (plural pilferers)

From crack +? -s- +? -man.

cracksman (plural cracksmen)

(archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

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