lightmans

English

Etymology

light +‎ -mans

Noun

lightmans (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, 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.
    • 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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References

  • Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue‎, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
  • “lightmans” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 17.
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 4, page 195–196

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