"darkmans" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lightmans"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dark",
        "3": "mans"
      },
      "expansion": "dark + -mans",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From dark + -mans.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "darkmans (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -mans",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bene darkmans"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The night."
      ],
      "id": "en-darkmans-en-noun-sd2crzxd",
      "links": [
        [
          "night",
          "night"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑːkmənz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "darkmans"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lightmans"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bene darkmans"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dark",
        "3": "mans"
      },
      "expansion": "dark + -mans",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From dark + -mans.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "darkmans (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English Thieves' Cant",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -mans",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The night."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "night",
          "night"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑːkmənz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "darkmans"
}