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autom cove

autom cove is the alternative spelling of autem cove.

Meaning of autem cove

Noun

autem cove (plural autem coves)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A married man.
    • Oh! where will be the culls of the bing / A hundred stretches hence? / The bene morts, who sweetly sing, / A hundred stretches hence? / The autum-cacklers, autum-coves, / The jolly blade who wildly roves; / And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen, / And all the cops and beaks so knowin', / A hundred...1859, George Washington Matsell, The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, A Hundred Stretches Hence

Forms of autom cove

pluralautom coves

Questions about autom cove

What is autom cove the alternative spelling of?
Autom cove is the alternative spelling of autem cove.

Words near autom cove in the dictionary

  1. autolyzed yeast extract
  2. autolyzed yeast extracts
  3. autolyzes
  4. autolyzing
  5. autom
  6. autom cove
  7. autom coves
  8. autom mort
  9. autom morts
  10. automacy
  11. automagic

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