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English
Etymology
From dark + -mans.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
darkmans (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The night.
c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. , London: [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page number):I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC:Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.
1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.
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References
- ^ Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.