dimber mort
English
Noun
dimber mort (plural dimber morts)
- (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) A pretty girl.
- 1837, Disraeli, Benjamin, Venetia:
- Tip me the clank, like a dimber mort as you are; trim a ken for the gentry cove; he is no lanspresado, or I am a kinchin.
- 1918, Farnol, Jeffery, Our Admirable Betty:
- Look'ee Benno, if you're a-hiding of some dimber mort aloft there I'm the cove to——
- 1988, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Our Country's Good, Act 2, Scene 1:
- Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
- 2015, Monroe, Erica, Beauty and the Rake:
- Look at 'er, Jay, 'ave ye ever seen a better dimber mort?
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:beautiful woman
Related terms
- dimber cove
References
- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Dimber mort”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 2, page 287