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autem mort en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) A married woman.
   • Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled. 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood:
   • These Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their Language is a church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe I have, that goeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not. 1556, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors,:
   • The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling. 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:
2. (idiomatic, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.

Forms

Hypernyms

beggar

Relateds

autem cove

Synonyms

autem cackler