Lexicographical Neighbors of Mundungo
Literary usage of Mundungo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1875)
"But scarcely were their marriage-sheets warm, till her dissembled fancy, having
no other bait but lucre to feed it, grew cold, and the mundungo-knight ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"... yellow look in it before the breeze fails; in which case, 'tis the African
coast to a certainty ! Pity these 'Hyson mundungo' men, as Jack calls them, ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... bad-smelling tobacco; 'A mundungo monopolist', Lady Alimony, ii. 2 (1 Boy);
snuff-mundungus, Butler, Hud. iii. 2. 1006. A jocular use of Span. mondongo, ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"mundungo, from the bloody field retir'd, Close in a corner plied the peaceful
bowl; Incurious he, ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1875)
"But scarcely were their marriage-sheets warm, till her dissembled fancy, having
no other bait but lucre to feed it, grew cold, and the mundungo-knight ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"... yellow look in it before the breeze fails; in which case, 'tis the African
coast to a certainty ! Pity these 'Hyson mundungo' men, as Jack calls them, ..."
7. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... bad-smelling tobacco; 'A mundungo monopolist', Lady Alimony, ii. 2 (1 Boy);
snuff-mundungus, Butler, Hud. iii. 2. 1006. A jocular use of Span. mondongo, ..."
8. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"mundungo, from the bloody field retir'd, Close in a corner plied the peaceful
bowl; Incurious he, ..."
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