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autom mort

autom mort is the alternative spelling of autem mort.

Meaning of autem mort

Noun

autem mort (plural autem morts)

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A married woman.
    • These Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their Language is a church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe I have, that goeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.1556, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors
    Synonyms:
    autem cackler
  2. (idiomatic, obsolete, thieves' cant) A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.

Forms of autom mort

pluralautom morts

Questions about autom mort

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

Words near autom mort in the dictionary

  1. autolyzes
  2. autolyzing
  3. autom
  4. autom cove
  5. autom coves
  6. autom mort
  7. autom morts
  8. automacy
  9. automagic
  10. automagical
  11. automagically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autom mort (page history and authors); autem mort (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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