Varieties of Sneaksman

[todabrilla]

The Word of the Day is "Sneaksmen".

Sneaksmen: Those who purloin goods, provisions, money, clothes, old metal, etc. (from Victorian English criminal slang).

Bonus Words of the Day*Drag Sneaks: thieves who steal goods or luggage from carts or coaches

Comments

[tonithegreat]

Did you get these from a book of lies?

[todabrilla]

No, not in what I consider to be your definition of a book of lies. I imagine that in Toni-speak a book of lies is a book where the author attempts to tease out causal threads from disparate events in the contingencies of history. And of course The Book of Lies is therefore The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke. But correct me if I am laboring under a misapprehension about books of lies.

The book I got these from is a history of the colonization of Australia (The Fatal Shore, that book that I got right before we had dinner a week ago, remember?) and it does not attempt to make sweeping generalizations or extrapolations. The definitions were ones the author quoted from a Victorian journalist. I have checked elsewhere and there seem to be multiple sources for several of the definitions