1736 Canting Dictionary / D / DRY-Boots [rogue]
a sly, close cunning Fellow.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Dry Boots in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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