1820-33. Lamb, Elia, Works (ed. 1852), p. 389. When they come with their counterfeit looks and mumping tones.
Mumpins, subs. (old).—Alms.
c. 1460. Towneley Mysteries, Primus Pastorum, p. 89. 2d Pastor. . . . let us go foder Our mompyns.
Mumpish, subs, (colloquial).—Dull;
dejected.
Mumple-mumper. See Mummer.
Mumps, subs. (common).—Low
spirits. See quot. 1754.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, in Wks. (Grosart). v. 267. The sunne was so in his mumps vppon it, that it was almost noone before hee could goe to cart that day.
1754. B. MARTIN, Eng. Dict. (2nd ed.). Mumps. . . . flouts, or ill humour.
MUMPSIMUS, subs. (old).—See quot.
1847. Halliwell, Archaic & Provincial Words, s.v. Mumpsimus. An old error in which men obstinately persevere: taken from a tale of an ignorant monk, who in his breviary had always said mumpsimus instead of sumpsimus, and being told of his mistake, said, 'I will not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus'.
MUNCH-PRESENT (Or MOUNCH-PRESENT),
subs. (old).—See ante.
MUND. See Muns.
MUNDUNGUS, subs. (old).—Bad
tobacco.
c. 1633. Lady Alimony, ii. 2. Sir Gregory Shapeless, a mundungo monopolist.
1665. Howard, The Committee, ii. A pipe of the worst mundungus.
1671. Shadwell, Humorists, iii. 41. A glass of Windy-Bottle-Ale in one hand, and a pipe of mundungus in the other.
d. 1680. Butler, Remains [1759, ii. 107]. Spoiled the tobacco for it presently became mundungus.
1689. J. Phillips, Satyr against Hypocrites, 13. Now steams of garlick whiffing thro' the nose Stank worse than Luther's socks, or foot-boy's toes. With these mundungos, and a breath that smells Like standing pools in subterranean cells.
1691-2. Gentlemen's Journal, Mar., p. 10. To nasty mundungus, and heath 'nish small beer.
1703. Ward, London Spy, Part iv. p. 80. The mixtures of scents that arose from mundungus-tobacco.
1755. Johnson, Dict., s.v. Mundungus, n. f. Stinking tobacco. A cant word.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan's Well, xxxii. Her jet-black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent such clouds of vile mundungus vapour as must have cleared the premises of Lady Penelope.
Adj. (old).—Stinking.
1750. Robertson of Struan, Poems, 50. To drink mundungus ale.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mondongo. Filthy; full of stench; it stinks beyond the power of endurance.
MUNG, subs. (American).—News;
mung-news = false news.
1849. New York Express, 17 Feb. As many of our citizens who intend to go to California may base their arrangements upon the mung news of some of the papers, we conceive it to be our duty to state that most of these letters are fictions.
Verb. (tramps').—See quots.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 265. I sold small articles of Tunbridge ware, perfumery, &c., &c., and by munging (begging) over them—sometimes in Latin—got a better living than I expected, or probably deserved.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mung. To solicit; to beg.
