dunaker n.
a cow-stealer.
![]() | Wandring whores complaint n.p.: The ninteenth [sic] a Donnaker that will make vows / To go in the Country and steal all the Cows. | |
![]() | Nicker Nicked in Harleian Misc. II (1809) 108: There come in shoals of hectors, trepanners, [...] bulkers, droppers, gamblers, donnakers, cross-biters. | |
![]() | New Academy of Complements 205: The seventeenth a Dun-aker, that will make vows, / To go to the Countrey and steal all the Cows. | |
![]() | Poor Robin [as cit 1669]. | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew. | |
![]() | ‘Black Procession’ in Musa Pedestris (1896) 39: The seventeenth a dunaker, that stoutly makes vows, / To go in the country and steal all the cows. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. n.p.: dunaker a Stealer of Cows, or Calves, &c. The Forty-third Order of Villains. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725]. |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Vocabulum. | |
, | ![]() | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
, , | ![]() | Sl. Dict. |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 26: Dunneker, a cattle-thief. |