autem mort

plural autem morts · alternative autum mort · alternative autom mort

1. obsoletethieves' cantA married woman.

   The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling.

   1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2

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   These Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their Language is a church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe I have, that goeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.

   1556, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors,

   Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled.

   1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood

   Synonyms: autem cackler

2. idiomaticobsoletethieves' cantA female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.