A thief.
"Pads, Biters, Divers, Lifters... these may all pass under the general appellation of Rooks."
Charles Cotton, The Complete Gamester (1674-80).
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A daily calendar of the world's oldest professions
About Me
- Richard Voorhees
- Voorhees' unabridged dictionary of "The World's Oldest Professions" is available on Amazon and at http://www.rgvoorhees.com. Follow him on Twitter @richvoorhees.
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2010
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March
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- Periwiggmaker
- Upton Sinclair on Lobbyists
- Twain on Keelboatmen
- Smelter
- Pastryman
- Compiler
- Fewterer
- Officer
- Buyers and Beggars
- Errant Panegyrists
- Potions and Motions
- Stallers up and Knuckling Gentlemen
- Sibyl
- Snake Charmer
- Kemp
- Professor of Black Magic
- Lector
- Twain on Missionaries and Whiskey
- Horace on Agents
- Ordinary
- Dickens on Parliamentarians
- Shyster
- Erasmus on Monks
- Collier
- The Chestnut Seller and the Almanac Maker
- Turd Monger
- Lifter
- Buttery-boy
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March
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It's been a good week for lexicography.
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