Obs. rare–1. App. an alteration of cormogeon, CURMUDGEON, with the first syllable assimilated to corn, used as a rendering of L. frumentarius corn-dealer.
1600. Holland, Livy, IV. xv. 150. A rich corne-mudgin [frumentarius], that with a quart (or measure of corne of two pounds) had bought the freedome of his fellow cittizens. Ibid., XXXVIII. xxxv. 1004. The fines that certeine cornmudgins [frumentarios] paid, for hourding up … their graine.
