scanmagn.
/ˈskanˌmaɡ/ humorous slang.
Scandal.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > a scandal or infamous event or state of things
mislander1531
scandal1613
scanmag1781
stink1819
affair1823
esclandre1832
scandalum magnatum1850
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. ii The publisher..threatening himself with the pillory, or absolutely indicting himself for Scan. Mag.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 221 I can give you a daily abstract of fashionable scan-mag.
1841 W. H. Maxwell Scotl. (1855) 17 Scan-mag is never heard of.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 135 The swarms of flies..noisily buzzing their scan-mag in private parlours.
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