darkmans

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English

Etymology

dark +‎ -mans[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

darkmans (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night.
    • 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Edward Lumley 1840, p. 538:
      I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]
    • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Penguin 2003, p. 148:
      Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.
    • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, BiblioBazaar 2007, p. 481:
      Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.

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References

  1. ^ Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.
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