kinchin mort
English
Alternative forms
- kinchen mort, kinchen mot, kinchen mott, kinchin mot, kinchin mott
Noun
kinchin mort (plural kinchin morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A female child, especially one carried by a beggar.
- 1611, Middleton, Thomas, The Roaring Girl, Edward Lumley, published 1840, page 538:
- 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 […]
- 1815, Scott, Walter, chapter XXVIII, in Guy Mannering:
- ‘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 […] ’
-
Related terms
- kinchin cove