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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Light-fingered Gentry (The). Pick-pockets and shop-lifters. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "LIGHT-FINGERED GENTRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | zsebtolvajok. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ight-fingeredlay entrygay | ||||
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