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English
Noun
fidlam ben (plural fidlam bens)
- (thieves' cant, archaic) A thief.
1834, Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke (of Philadelphia), The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States: Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, page 122:Given them are fidlam-bens who want Beauty and Booty as the reward of their havin fag'd as many of you as dont pike off, bullets for their prog; and let me see that you are jonnok, when these shabbaroons of England attack you.
2023 December 4, Bree Wolf, Sydney Jane Baily, Tracy Sumner, Charlie Lane, Fenna Edgewood, Jennifer Monroe, Meredith Bond, Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Regency Anthology, WOLF Publishing UG (haftungsbeschränkt), →ISBN:He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.