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KINCHIN-Coves,

little Children whose Parents are dead, having been Beggars; as also young Lads running from their Masters, who are first taught Canting, then Thieving.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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KILKENNY
KILL-Devil
To KIMBAW
KIN
KINCHIN
KINCHIN-Coves
KINCHIN Cove
KINCHIN-Morts
KING of the Gypsies
KING's Head Inn
KING's Pictures

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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).