(archaic, UK, thieves' cant) Good night; a farewell said in the evening or nighttime.
(archaic, UK, thieves' cant) Good night; a farewell said in the evening or nighttime.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Good day; a greeting said in the morning or daytime.
(obsolete, UK, thieves') The night.
Obsolete English thieves' cant for nighttime or 'the night', used by 16th and 17th century criminal underworld communities to refer to the dark hours when illicit activity was most easily conducted. Part of a rich vocabulary of Elizabethan and Jacobean criminal slang documented in canting dictionaries of the period. 'Darkmans' pairs with 'lightmans' (daytime). Today the word is of purely historical and literary interest, appearing in period crime fiction, academic study of cant, and occasionally in fantasy or historical RPG settings.
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Very good; excellent.