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- noun archaic The
night .
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Examples
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And then I could slooshy his bolshy lumpy boots beating off, him going huh huh huh into the darkmans, and it was only about seven seconds after that I slooshied the millicent-van draw up with a filthy great dropping siren-howl, like some bezoomny animal snuffing it.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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I knew what a " darkmans-budge " was — defined here as " one that slides into a House in the dusk, to let in more Rogues to rob " — simply by having read Dickens ' s " Oliver Twist " back in high school.
When Sounds Make Sense Alexander Theroux 2010
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If the Irish did not cut their throats in the darkmans—that is their flash lingo for night—the North Country would.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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If the Irish did not cut their throats in the darkmans—that is their flash lingo for night—the North Country would.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Bein darkmans then, bouse, mort, and ken [33] the bien coue's bingd awast; [34]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Well, for all that, said the other, I think we should be down upon the fellow one of these darkmans, and let him get it well.
Chapter XXVIII 1917
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'Come, old mort,' said the leader, in a very different tone to the one in which he addressed his young guest, 'tout the cobble-colter; are we to have darkmans upon us?
Venetia Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Men were men then, and fought other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.
Guy Mannering 1815
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'Well, for all that,' said the other, 'I think we should be down upon the fellow one of these darkmans and let him get it well.'
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Men were men then, and fought other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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