libken

English

Alternative forms

libkin

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Noun

libken (plural libkens)

(obsolete, slang) A house or lodging.
- c. 1607-1610, Ben Jonson, The Roaring Girl
  No, we scorn to be pure rogues, but if you come to our libken, or our stalling-ken, you shall find neither him nor me a queer cuffin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for libken in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Belkin