or lypken, subs. (old cant).—See quote.
1573. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors (1814), p. 65. A LYPKEN, a house to lye in.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, p. 39 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. LYBKIN a house to lodge people.
1621. JONSON, Gipsies Metamorphosed. To their LIBKINS at the crackmans.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. LIBKEN, c, a House to lye in; also a Lodging.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1815. SCOTT, Guy Mannering, xliv. These are the fees I always charge a swell that must have his LIB-KEN to himself—thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half-a-guinea a week for a single bed.
1858. A. MAYHEW, Paved with Gold, Bk. III. ch. i. p. 256. ‘We can sel’em to the ‘mot’ (landlady) of the LIBBKEN (lodging-house) for a good deal.’
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
