upright man

See also: Upright Man

English

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Noun

upright man (plural upright men)

  1. (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.
    • 1611, Middleton, Thomas, The Roaring Girle‎:
      I hope then you can cant, for by your cudgels, you sirra are an upright man.
    • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:
      And the gentry had kind hearts, and would have given baith lap and pannel to ony puir gypsy; and there was not one, from Johnnie Faa the upright man, to little Christie that was in the panniers, would cloyed a dud from them.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upright,‎ man.
    • 2013, Danson Enogiomwan Ubebe, Return to God: The ABC of 'set Free by Knowing the Truth', →ISBN, page 19:
      Later He gave him freedom from the Lord to live alone as an upright man to cultivate and keep His garden called Eden.

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References
  • Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “upright man”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 391.
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 7, page 264
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