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KINCHIN-Morts,

Girls of a Year or two old, whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no Children of thir own, they borrow or steal them from others.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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To KIMBAW
KIN
KINCHIN
KINCHIN-Coves
KINCHIN Cove
KINCHIN-Morts
KING of the Gypsies
KING's Head Inn
KING's Pictures
KIT
A KNACK Shop

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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).