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▪ I. cly, n. Thieves' cant.
[cf. cly v.]
(See quot.)
c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Cly, Money..Let's strike his Cly, let's get his Money from him; also a Pocket. Filed a Cly, Pickt a Pocket. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v. (1878) 200 No knuckler so deftly could fake a cly. 1858A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. i. 69 ‘They're just made for hooking a fogle out of a clye.’
Hence cly-faker, pickpocket; cly-faking vbl. n.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Cly-faker, a pick-pocket. 1827Lytton Pelham lxxxii, They were gentlemen sharpers, and not vulgar cracksmen and clyfakers. 1862H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xxxv, ‘But what is cly-faking?’ said Charles. ‘Why a-prigging of wipes and sneeze-boxes, and ridicules, and such.’
▪ II. cly, v. Thieves' cant.
Also 7–8 cloy, 7 clay.
[Possibly in origin identical with clye v. below (LG. kleien, klaien), with a modified sense ‘seize, grip, or pull with the claws, clutch’, = claw v. 2. Cf. the range of meaning of the latter verb; in Lower Rhenish dial., klauen, kläuen, kleuen, is used in the sense ‘steal’; and beclæwen in MHG. is said of the devil, just like ‘the Ruffian (devil) cly thee!’ (See Grimm, Klauen 2.)]
1. trans. To seize; to take; to get.
1567Harman Caveat 86 So may we cly the Iarke..The Ruffian clye thee! 1609Dekker Lanthorn & Candle-lt. C iij b, The Ruffian cly the ghost of the Harman beck! 1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metamorph. 1641Brome Jovial Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 388 Here, safe in our Skipper, let's cly off our Peck. c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, To Cly the Jerk, to be whipt. 1827Lytton Pelham lxxxii, You deserve to cly the jerk for your patter. Ibid. The ruffian cly thee, Guinea Pig, for stashing the lush.
2. esp. To steal.
1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all (1874) 8 They are sure to be Clyd in the night, by the Angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers. 1671R. Head Eng. Rogue i. v. (1874) 48 Cloy, to steal. c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Claying the Bung, Cutting the Purse, or Picking the Pocket. Ibid. Cloy, to Steal. Cloy the Clout, to Steal the Hankerchief. 1739Poor Robin (N.), Money is now a hard commodity to get, insomuch that some will venture their necks for it, by padding, cloying, milling, filching, nabbing, etc., all which in plain English is only stealing. |