subs. (old).—1. An emptier of privies. Also TOM-TURD-MAN; GONG-MAN; and NIGHT-MAN. Fr., un fouillemerde; un fifi. Also passer la jambe à Jules = to upset MRS. JONES, i.e., to empty the privy tub.
1611. COTGRAVE, Dictionarie. Gadoüard: m. A GOULD-FINDER, Jakes-farmer.
1635. FELTHAM, Resolves. As our GOLDFINDERS … in the night and darkness thrive on stench and excrements.
1653. MIDDLETON, The Spanish Gipsy, ii., 2, p. 398 (Mermaid series). Soto. And if his acres, being sold for a marvedi a turf for larks in cages, cannot fill this pocket, give ’em to GOLD-FINDERS.
1659. TORRIANO, Vocabolario, s.v.
1704. W. DARREL, The Gentlemen Instructed, 445 (1732). We will commit the further discussion of the poet to a committee of GOLDFINDERS, or a club of rake-kennels.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
2. (old).—A thief; a GOLD-DROPPER (q.v.).
