dimber mort

plural dimber morts

1. UKarchaicthieves' cantA pretty girl.

   Look at 'er, Jay, 'ave ye ever seen a better dimber mort?

   2015, Erica Monroe, Beauty and the Rake

   3 more examples

   Tip me the clank, like a dimber mort as you are; trim a ken for the gentry cove; he is no lanspresado, or I am a kinchin.

   1837, Benjamin Disraeli, Venetia

   Look'ee Benno, if you're a-hiding of some dimber mort aloft there I'm the cove to——

   1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty

   Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.

   1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1

   Synonyms: beautiful woman