dimber mort

dimber mort (plural dimber morts)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A pretty girl.
   • 1837, Disraeli, Benjamin, Venetia:

     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.

   • 1918, Farnol, Jeffery, Our Admirable Betty:

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

   • 1988, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Our Country's Good, Act 2, Scene 1:

     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.

   • 2015, Monroe, Erica, Beauty and the Rake:

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

• See Thesaurus:beautiful woman

• dimber cove

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Dimber mort”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 2, page 287