libken

English

Alternative forms

• libkin

Pronunciation

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Noun

libken (plural libkens)

1. (obsolete, slang) A house or lodging.
   • c. 1607-1610, Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl

     No, we scorn to be pure rogues, but if you come to our libken, or our stalling-ken, you shall find neither him nor me a queer cuffin.

   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:

     To their libkins at the Crackmans.

   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     These are the fees I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himself.

References

• “libken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• OED

Anagrams

• Belkin