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单词 mundungus
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mundungusn.

Brit. /mʌnˈdʌŋɡəs/, U.S. /ˌmənˈdəŋɡəs/
Forms:

α. 1600s– mundungus.

β. 1600s mundunga, 1600s mundungoe, 1600s–1900s mundungo.

γ. 1600s mondongas, 1600s mundungas, 1600s mundungoes, 1600s mundungo's, 1600s mundungos.

Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from Spanish. Etymons: mondongo n.; Spanish mondongo.
Etymology: < mondongo n. or its etymon Spanish mondongo.In γ. forms in plural form with singular sense; in α. forms, in spite of the slight disparity in the chronology, apparently a remodelling of β. forms after Latin singular nouns in -us.
Now archaic.
1. Offal, refuse. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
tippings-
α.
1637 J. Bastwick Letany 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.
1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 33 Mundungus, sad Stuff.
1786 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis i. 56 Thus scarceness gives value to dirt and mundungus, And dignifies that, Nature meant as a fungus.
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal 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. Tobacco of poor quality; bad-smelling tobacco.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > bad-smelling or rank
mundungus1640
mundung1712
old rope1943
α.
1671 T. Shadwell Humorists iii. 41 With a Glass of Windy-Bottle-Ale in one hand, and a Pipe of Mundungus in the other.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 151 After h' had ministred a Dose Of Snuff-Mundungus, to his Nose.
1701 in Marquis of Normanby et al. Collection Poems 394 Exhale Mundungus, ill-perfuming Smoak.
1719 A. Ramsay 2nd Answer to Hamilton xii Gin I can snifter thro' mundungus.
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 192 The Flemish tobacco is the poorest Mundungus in the world.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Mundungus, bad or rank tobacco.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vi. 156 Her jet-black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent..clouds of vile mundungus vapour.
1840 B. E. Hill Pinch—of Snuff 54 He might..get rid of any dull flavourless mundungus under the title of Russell's Rappee.
1901 G. Gissing Our Friend the 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’.
1981 P. O'Brian Ionian Mission vii. 201 If you have finished, Stephen, pray smoke away. I am sure you bought some of your best mundungus in Mahon.
β. 1640 Womens Sharpe Revenge 170 Fine commodities..as Ginger-bread, Rattles, Mouse-traps, Tormentours for Fleas, Tennis Balls, and Mundunga Tobacco.1647 M. Corbet's Learned Speech 3 Infernal stinking Smoaks of Mundungo [1681 p. 2 Mundungus].1659 Lady Alimony ii. ii. sig. B4 One Sir Gregory Shapeless, a Mundungo's Monopolist,..who had smook'd himself into a Mercenary title of Knightship.1700 J. Brome Trav. iii. 184 They are great lovers of Tobacco, and a little Mundungo will make them at any time very serviceable.1943 R. Graves Story Marie Powell xx. 270 If even mundungo failed he would fain, I believe, have cut strands of hemp from a bell-rope and smoked that.γ. 1644 Spie 31 Jan. 10 The Printer..the last week would allow him but one sheet to lie in, because when he has two, he is sure to spoile one, and mak it good for nothing, unlesse the Tobacconian Mundungas-suckers take Pity.a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 14 in Five New Playes (1659) I must have tother glass to wash him out of my mouth, he furs it worse then Mondongas Tobacco.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xxii. 273/2 Selling..that for good tobacco, which is none at all, or else the worst of all Mundungasses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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