What does kinchin mean?
Kinchin means (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A child..
Kinchin
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A child..
Example Sentences
A kynchen co is a young boye, traden vp to suche peuishe purposes as you haue harde of other young ympes before, that when he growth vnto yeres, he is better to hang then to drawe.
Theſe Kinchins, the firſt thing they do, is to learne how to Cant, and the onely thing they pꝛactiſe, is to créepe in at windowes oꝛ Cellar dooꝛes.
Me let him escape?—the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him.
"The kinchins, my dear," said the Jew, "is the young children that's sent on errands by their mothers, with sixpences and shillings, and the lay is just to take their money away—they've always got it ready in their hands,—[…]
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- kinchins
- kinchen
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A kynchen co is a young boye, traden vp to suche peuishe purposes as you haue harde of other young ympes before, that when he growth vnto yeres, he is better to hang then to drawe.
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