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English
Noun
dimber mort (plural dimber morts)
- (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) A pretty girl.
1837, Benjamin Disraeli, Venetia:Tip me the clank, like a dimber mort as you are; trim a ken for the gentry cove; he is no lanspresado, or I am a kinchin.
1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
2015, Erica Monroe, Beauty and the Rake:Look at 'er, Jay, 'ave ye ever seen a better dimber mort?
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References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Dimber mort”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- John S Farmer; W E Henley, compilers (1891) “dimber mort”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume II, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 287.