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English
Etymology
From light + -mans.
Noun
lightmans (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The day.
1612, Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-light:And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.
1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman:Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
2012, Kate Ross, A Broken Vessel:Mr. Kestrel's out to dinner with some of his pals, and he 'most never comes home till lightmans.
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References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Lightmans”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “lightmans”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 17.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1896) “lightmans”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume IV, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, pages 195–196.
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