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scanmag slang.|ˈskænˌmæg|
The abbreviated form (scan. mag.) of scandalum magnatum, used jocularly as a word in the sense of ‘scandal’.
1779Sheridan Critic i. ii, The publisher..threatening himself with the pillory, or absolutely indicting himself for Scan. Mag. 1826T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. (Colburn) 124 I can give you a daily abstract of fashionable scan-mag. 1841W. H. Maxwell Scotland (1855) 17 Scan-mag is never heard of. 1859Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 135 The swarms of flies..noisily buzzing their scan-mag in private parlours. |