Talk:mort

Very interesting usage

" 1611, Thomas Middleton, , Edward Lumley, published 1840, page 538:I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]"

Here the "mort" refers not to an adult woman but to a child (a "kinchin mort"), but the sentence is also remarkable for "doxy" and "dell," both of which are also words used for females. It's a tour-de-force of sexism, one might say. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 21:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

@Wastrel Way: We have kinchin mort, defined as “a female child”. J3133 (talk) 10:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)