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† slampant Obs. rare.
Also 6 slampaine, -pam.
[Of obscure origin and doubtful form.]
A trick. to give one the (or a) slampant, to play a trick on, to circumvent or hoodwink, one.
Cotgrave prob. copied North's rendering of Fr. trousse.
1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed (1808) VI. 30 The townesmen being pinched at the heart, that one rascal in such scornefull wise should give them the slampaine. 1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 805 Polyperchon,..meaning to giue Cassander a slampant and blurt,..sent letters Pattents vnto the people at Athens. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 116 Shal a stranger geue me the slampam? With such departure my regal segnorye frumping? 1611Cotgr., Trousse,..a cousening tricke, blurt, slampant. |