Downy Cove (A)
.A knowing fellow, up to every dodge. On the “lucus a non lucendo” principle, contraries are often substituted in slang and facetious phrases. (See Lucus a non Lucendo.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.