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He, like me, was a "gaycat" or tramp who is not above occasional work (as the word meant then -- now it means a cheap, no-account grafter).
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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The yegg, the tiger among tramps -- the criminal tramp -- despises the ordinary bum and the "gaycat."
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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The gaycat awoke, I made believe to awake; and we sat up and stared at the shack and his lantern.
Bulls 1907
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He, like me, was a “gaycat” or tramp who is not above occasional work (as the word meant then ” now it means a cheap, no-account grafter).
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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The yegg, the tiger among tramps ” the criminal tramp ” despises the ordinary bum and the “gaycat.”
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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