autem mortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

autem mort (複数形 autem morts)

1. (archaic, thieves' cant) A married woman.
   • 1556, Harman, Thomas, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors,:

     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.

   • 1641–42, Brome, Richard, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, Act 2:

     The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling.

   • 1834, Ainsworth, William Harrison, Rookwood:

     Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled.

2. (idiomatic, archaic, thieves' cant) A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.

同意語

• (married woman): autem cackler

上位語

• (beggar with children): beggar, see also Wikisaurus:beggar

関連する語

• (married woman): autem cove (“married man”)

参照

• Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)
• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue^[1], 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• “autem mort” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 54.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues^[2], volume 1, page 81