1736 Canting Dictionary / D / DEFT Fellow [person]
a tidy, neat, little Man.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Deft Fellow in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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