kinchin mort
English
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[edit]kinchin mort (plural kinchin morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A female child, especially one carried by a beggar.
- c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1611, →OCLC, [Act V], signature [K4], recto:
- My doxy I haue by the Salomon a doxy, that carries a kitchin mort in her ſlat at her backe, beſides my dell and my dainty wilde del, with all whom I'le tumble this next darkmans in the ſtrommel, […]
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 97:
- “I’ll pray for nane o’ him,” said Meg, “nor for you neither, you randy dog. The times are sair altered since I was a kinchin-mort. […]”