lightmans

light +‎ -mans

lightmans (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The day.
   • 1612, Dekker, Thomas, Lanthorne and Candle-light‎:

     And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.

   • 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman

     Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?

   • 2012, Ross, Kate, A Broken Vessel:

     Mr. Kestrel's out to dinner with some of his pals, and he 'most never comes home till lightmans.

• darkmans

• bene lightmans

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Lightmans”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “lightmans”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 17.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 4, page 195–196

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