"darkmans" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdɑːkmənz/ [Received-Pronunciation]
Etymology: From dark + -mans. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dark|mans}} dark + -mans Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} darkmans (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night. Tags: UK, obsolete, uncountable Derived forms: bene darkmans
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          "ref": "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, (please specify the Internet Archive page number):",
          "text": "I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]",
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          "ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.",
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        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.",
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        }
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        "The night."
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        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night."
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          "ref": "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, (please specify the Internet Archive page number):",
          "text": "I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.",
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          "ref": "1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.",
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        "The night."
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        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night."
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "darkmans"
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