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kinchin mort

kinchin mort noun: a female child, especially one carried by a beggar.

Noun

kinchin mort (plural kinchin morts)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A female child, especially one carried by a beggar.
    • 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, […]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...
    • “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.[…]”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...

Forms of kinchin mort

pluralkinchin morts
alternative formkinchen mort
alternative formkinchen mot
alternative formkinchen mott
alternative formkinchin mot
alternative formkinchin mott

Questions about kinchin mort

What does kinchin mort mean?
Kinchin mort means a female child, especially one carried by a beggar.
What part of speech is kinchin mort?
Kinchin mort is a noun.
What is the plural of kinchin mort?
The plural of kinchin mort is kinchin morts.

Words near kinchin mort in the dictionary

  1. Kinches
  2. kinchin
  3. kinchin cove
  4. kinchin coves
  5. kinchin lay
  6. kinchin mort
  7. kinchin morts
  8. Kinchinjunga
  9. kinchins
  10. kincob
  11. kincobs

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