(obsolete, UK, thieves) A married man.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A married man.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves) Married.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A gentleman.
An archaic British term for a woman, derived from the thieves' cant word 'cove' (a man, a fellow) with a feminine suffix. The word belongs to the cant vocabulary of 17th and 18th-century British criminal and underworld speech and has no meaningful modern usage.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A gentleman.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A handsome man.