Definition of Jarkman

1. a swindling beggar [n JARKMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jarkman

jargonized
jargonizes
jargonizing
jargonless
jargons
jargony
jargoon
jargoons
jarhead
jarheads
jarina
jarinas
jark
jarked
jarking
jarkman (current term)
jarkmen
jarks
jarl
jarldom
jarldoms
jarlike
jarlite
jarls
jarlsberg
jarlsbergs
jarnut
jarnuts
jarool
jarools

Literary usage of Jarkman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"I: 'jarkman or Patrico or Clapper dudgeon Frater or Abram man I speak to all That stand in fair election for the title Of King of Beggars'; and Ben Jonson, ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... A jar of the clock', Wint. Tale, i. 2. 48 ; ' fallen at jars', 2 Hen. VI, i. 1. 253. jarkman, an educated beggar. (Cant.) Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, ii. ..."

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