lightmans
English
Etymology
light + -mans
Noun
lightmans (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The day.
- 1612, Dekker, Thomas, Lanthorne and Candle-light:
- And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.
- 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
- Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
- 2012, Ross, Kate, A Broken Vessel:
- Mr. Kestrel's out to dinner with some of his pals, and he 'most never comes home till lightmans.
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Antonyms
- darkmans
Derived terms
- bene lightmans
References
- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Lightmans”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “lightmans”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 17.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 4, page 195–196
Anagrams
- Tilghmans