† clymecleymen.
Cant. Obsolete.
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clyme1673
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 74 Her Comrogue lies begging in the fields with Clymes or artificial Sores.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cleymes, Sores without Pain raised on Beggers Bodies, by their own Artifice. [Also 1725 New Canting Dict.]
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n.1673- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's
- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn
- not to careor matter a farthing
- not to choose
- not to count a thing at a cress
- not to count at a cress
- not to do something for the world
- not to etc a mite
- not to etc a rap
- not to etc a word of
- not to get a look-in
- not to get a lookin
- not to get a person anywhere
- not to get any change out of
- not to get any change out of a person
- not to get any change out of a situation
- not to get anywhere
- not to get much change out of
- not to get much change out of a person
- not to get much change out of a situation
- not to give a bugger
- not to give a button
- not to give a continental
- not to give a crap
- not to give a curse