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KIDLAYS,

an Order of Rogues, who meeting a Youth with a Bundle or Parcel of Goods, wheedle him by fair Words, and whipping Six-pence into his Hand, to step on a short and sham Errand, in the mean Time run away with the Goods.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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KEN-Miller
KICK
KICK'D
KICKS
KID
KIDLAYS
KIDNAPPER
KILKENNY
KILL-Devil
To KIMBAW
KIN

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).