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Corner-man. World English Historical Dictionary

Corner-man. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Corner-man or corner-cove, subs. (common).—1.  A loafer; literally a lounger at corners.

1   1851.  H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, IV., 445. I mean by CORNER-COVES them sort of men who is always a standing at the corners of the streets and chaffing respectable folks a-passing by!

2   1885.  Chambers’s Journal, Feb. 28, p. 136. Curley Bond was well known in the district as a loafer and CORNER-MAN.

3   2.  (music hall).—The ‘Bones’ and ‘Tambourine’ in a band of negro minstrels.

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