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ben mort (plural ben morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Good woman.
1610, Samuel Rowlands, “Towre Out Ben Morts”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 5:Towre out ben morts & towre, / Looke out ben morts & towre, / For all the Rome coues are budgd a beake, / And the quire coves tippe the lowre.
1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
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