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kinchin morts

kinchin morts is the plural of kinchin mort.

Meaning of kinchin mort

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...

Questions about kinchin morts

What is kinchin morts the plural of?
Kinchin morts is the plural of kinchin mort.

Words near kinchin morts in the dictionary

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

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