Meaning of Abram cove | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of Abraham man.

UK, obsolete

Examples

“"Curse him, Squire," croaked Chinnery, "don't suffer⟳ such an Abram cove to play⟳ the counterfeit crank. If he were to refuse⟳ to booze it at the George in White Friars, the Bear⟳ and Harrow in Chancery Lane, the Setting Dog and Partridge in Jackanapes Alley, or any of the loyal houses in London, they would mill him with a filch, or give⟳ him a worse Rose-Alley salutation than Johnny Dryden's."”

“Duds and Cheats thou oft hast won, / […] / Cank and Dommerar thou couldst play⟳, / Or Rum-maunder in one day; / And like⟳ an Abram-cove couldst pray, / Yet pass⟳ with Jybes well jerk'd away.”

“What, you — you bit av a beak and trail. Ecod, but Bess is meat for your master, and that's me, as you'll soon know⟳. She's an old wench o' mine, and I'll buss her when I choose⟳, and ask⟳ no leave⟳ of an Abram cove of corporal like⟳ you afore I run⟳ you through the body."”

“So loathly was he and verminous they scarce could seize and bind⟳ him, but when haled before the magistrate he proved to be an abram-cove named Jacques Roulet, who with his brother Jean and a cousin Julien[…]”

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