subs. (old cant).—1. A hungry man; a RARE PECKER (q.v.).
1608. The Merry Devil of Edmonton [DODSLEY, Old Plays, v., 267]. Away, I have knights and colonels at my house, and must tend the HUNGARIANS.
1632. D. LUPTON, London [Harleian Miscellany], ix., 314. The middle aile [of St. Paul’s] is much frequented at noon with a company of HUNGARIANS, not walking so much for recreation as need.
2. (old cant).—A freebooter.
1608. The Merry Devil of Edmonton [DODSLEY, Old Plays, v., 285). Come, ye HUNGARIAN pilchers, we are once more come under the Zona Torrida of the forest.
1893. National Observer, ‘Spoliation,’ ix., 357. But, after all, it is only another note in the gamut of spoliation, whereof Mr. Gladstone’s HUNGARIANS (a good old word that!) would have the mastery.
