1736 Canting Dictionary / Y / YARMOUTH-Capon [thing]
a red Herring.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Yarmouth Capon in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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