flatty-ken
(UK, thieves, obsolete) A public house whose landlord is ignorant of the practices of the thieves and tramps who frequent it.
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(UK, thieves, obsolete) A public house whose landlord is ignorant of the practices of the thieves and tramps who frequent it.
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An obsolete piece of British thieves and vagabond cant for a lodging house that catered to tramps and vagabonds — essentially a dosshouse. Padding referred to the act of walking the roads (padding the hoof), and ken was cant for a house. Documented in 18th and 19th century slang dictionaries.