arch doxy

English

Noun

arch doxy (plural arch doxies)

  1. (idiomatic, archaic) The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies.

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References

Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)

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