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† munˈdungus Obs.
Forms: α. 7–8 mundungo; β. 7– mundungus (7 mundungo's, -gos, -gas, mondongas).
[A jocular use of Sp. mondongo tripe, black-pudding (see mondongo).]
†1. Offal, refuse. Obs. rare.
1637Bastwick Litany i. 10 Those Fishmongers that haue bought and sold Christs best fishes..and made them the mundungus and garbridge both of sea and land and the off⁓scouring of all things. 1786‘A. Pasquin’ Childr. Thespis i. (1792) 83 Thus scarceness gives value to dirt and mundungus, And dignifies that Nature meant as a fungus. 1834Beckford Italy II. 198 What is so liberally paid for by the..people as a rarity of exquisite relish, should not be suffered to turn mundungus.
2. Bad-smelling tobacco. Also attrib.
α1641J. Taylor (Water P.) Compl. M. Tenterhooke (1877), [Kinds of Tobacco] Bermudas, Providentia, Shallow-congo, And the most part of all the rest (Mundungo). 1647M. Corbet's Learned Sp. 3 Infernal stinking Smoaks of Mundungo [1681 p. 2 Mundungus]. 1700J. Brome Trav. iii. (1707) 180 They are great lovers of Tobacco, and a little Mundungo will make them at any time very serviceable.
βa1652Brome Covent Gard. i. Wks. 1873 II. 14, I must have tother glass to wash him out of my mouth, he furs it worse then Mondongas Tobacco. 1659Lady Alimony ii. ii. B 4, One Sir Gregory Shapeless, a Mundungo's Monopolist,..who had smook'd himself into a Mercenary title of Knightship. 1671Shadwell Humorists iii. 41 With a Glass of Windy-Bottle-Ale in one hand, and a Pipe of Mundungus in the other. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1006 After h' had ministred a Dose Of Snuff-Mundungus, to his Nose. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xxii. (Roxb.) 273/2 Selling..that for good tobacco, which is none at all, or else the worst of all Mundungasses. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 192 The Flemish tobacco is the poorest Mundungus in the world. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Mundungus, bad or rank tobacco. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, Her jet black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent..clouds of vile mundungus vapour. 1840B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 54 He might..get rid of any dull flavourless mundungus under the title of Russell's Rappee. 1901G. Gissing Our Fr. Charlatan 137, ‘Here's a new mixture, my own blending,..I see your pipe is empty’... ‘I stick to my own mundungus; any novelty disturbs my thoughts’. |