cantin

"Back slang an 'cantin' an 'rhymin' is grown vulgar, and Italian always _was_ the lowest of the lot; thieves _kennick_ is genteel alongside of organ-grinder's lingo, you know.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

Wi 'heart sae black and look sae big, and cantin' tongue o 'clishmaclaver,

Lady Keith's Lament 1998

Why, it might ha 'been wrote a-purpose for that there little cantin' beggar up at our shop -- blowed if it mightn't!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891 Various

But not of what'll happen to him or you -- or any of your cantin ', lip-servin' crew.

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

If that ain't enough he's a cantin ', hymn singin' murdhrous wretch that wuddent lave wan iv our counthrymen ate a square meal if he had his way.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'Ha done wi your cantin!' said Hannah under her breath, laying her two hands on the table, and stooping down so as to face him with more effect.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

They ain't the criminals that cantin 'hypocrites say they are.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883

And they says if I want my shillin 'I can go and get it from that cantin' son of a thief -- meanin 'you, governor -- what kep' me.

My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Who goes sneakin 'off every arternoon with that same cantin' hound of a school-master?

Cressy Bret Harte 1869

Yes, Sir! that high-toned, cantin 'school-teacher was keepin' a married woman in

Cressy Bret Harte 1869