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▪ I. ‖ munga1|ˈmʌŋgə|
The Bonnet Macaque, Macacus sinicus, of southern India.
1843J. E. Gray List Spec. Mammalia Brit. Mus. 7. 1884–5 Stand. Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 516.
▪ II. munga2 Austral., N.Z., and Forces' slang.|ˈmʌŋgə|
Also manga, munger, mungey, mungy.
[Said to be f. F. manger to eat.]
(See quots.) Also attrib.
Quot. 1907 may not belong here.
1907‘Q’ Major Vigoureux xxii. 218 Annet, Linnet, and Matthew Henry sat..and watched their friend Jan eat his mid-morning snack—or ‘mungey’, as it is called in the Islands. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 34 Mungy (Fr., Manger)—Food; a meal. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 161 Mungy wallah, a man employed in the Cook House. 1929Papers Michigan Acad. Sci. & Arts X. 309/2 Mungey, food in general. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby iv. 70 Those munger vendors did a roaring trade. Ibid. vii. 152 There were rush-baskets full of mysterious munger; bricks of sugar, bubbly discs of native bread, and piles of vegetables. 19432 N.Z.E.F. Times 25 Oct. 11 He argued quite a lot until munga time. 1947D. M. Davin For Rest of Lives 75 [The Cook] swore he'd give them some good manga to go off with. 1949‘The Sarge’ Excuse Feet ix. 102 Herbert felt quite sure she would have put on a much better act for a bit of army munga. Ibid. 157 Munga, food. 1959S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time vi. 69 Come an' get your munga. 1970N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 12/4 Certainly do feel hungry. How about a plate of steak and eggs now? Or a rich, smoking mutton chop? A man has to eat. White or brown, everyone scoffs the same munga. 1971Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Oct. 42/4 After the munga Ian showed me his cocktail bit. |