Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawpuses
Literary usage of Mawpuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"19 ; MS. Sloane 1201, f. 24 ; Warner's Antiq. Culin. p. 76 ; Ord. and Reg. pp.
430, 455. MAWN. Peat. ¡Icref. mawpuses. Money. Line. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... full with wine, Cals for a mazer (which he might hav« and from ; to walk and
gaze, аз if out of mind or delirious. Lane. mawpuses, ». Money. Line. ..."
3. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Halliwell gives " mawpuses," as Lincolnshire. MORAL. Model, resemblance. "
He's the very moral of his father. ..."
4. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1885)
"... f" (N.) In Lincolnshire mawpuses From mag (qv), a penny, which with the
case-form becomes ma- gan, whence, by a regular Celtic variation, mapas, ..."
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