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autum mort

autum 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 autum mort

pluralautum morts

Questions about autum mort

What is autum mort the alternative spelling of?
Autum mort is the alternative spelling of autem mort.

Words near autum mort in the dictionary

  1. Autry
  2. Autrys
  3. autum
  4. autum cove
  5. autum coves
  6. autum mort
  7. autum morts
  8. autumn
  9. autumn Adonis
  10. autumn Adonises
  11. autumn break

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autum 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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