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Noun
kinchin mort (plural kinchin morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A female child, especially one carried by a beggar.
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, [Act V], signature , recto:My doxy I haue by the Salomon a doxy, that carries a kitchin mort in her ſlat at her backe, beſides my dell and my dainty wilde del, with all whom I'le tumble this next darkmans in the ſtrommel, […]
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. , volume II, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC, page 97:“I’ll pray for nane o’ him,” said Meg, “nor for you neither, you randy dog. The times are sair altered since I was a kinchin-mort. […]”