lightmans
English
Noun
lightmans (uncountable)
- (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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- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Lightmans”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
- “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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