Patrico

Quick meaning: Patrico is a noun meaning (slang, obsolete, thieves' cant) A gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.

Meaning

(slang, obsolete, thieves' cant) A gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.

Example Sentences

And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.

There was a proud patrico and a nosegent, he toke his Jockam in his famble, and a wapping he went, he dockt the Dell, he prygge to praunce, he byngd a wast into the darkemans, he fylche the Cofe without any fylche man.

Word Forms

• patricos
• patricoes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pike, palliard, badge-cove, patsy, parisher, pilcher.

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