patrico

plural patricos · plural patricoes

1. obsoleteslangthieves' cantA gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.

   And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.

   Beggars' Bush (17th-century play), act 2 scene 1

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   There was a proud patrico and a nosegent, he toke his Jockam in his famble, and a wapping he went, he dockt the Dell, he prygge to praunce, he byngd a wast into the darkemans, he fylche the Cofe without any fylche man.

   1871, Charles Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany