1736 Canting Dictionary / E / EVES-Dropper [rogue]
one that lurks about to rob or steal.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Eves Dropper in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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