or maunder.—1. To beg. TO MAUND UPON THE PAD (or ON THE FLY) = to beg in the highway or the street. MAUNDING = begging. [From MAUND = a basket: cf. BEG from bag.]
1531–47. COPLAND, The Hye-way to the Spyttel-hous, line 1046.
| With bowsy Cove MAUND Nace, | |
| Teur the Pairing Coue in the darkeman Case. |
1607. DEKKER, Jests to Make You Merie, in Wks. (GROSART), II. 322. In her MAWND or basket which she beares on her arme, lapt in a pure white cloth, some fine tidy pig.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, 39 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. What MAUND doe you beake, what kind of begging use you? Ile myll your MAUND, Ile spoyle your begging.
1611. MIDDLETON, The Roaring Girle, v. 1. I instructed him in the rudiments of roguery, and by my map made him sail over any country you can name, so that now he can MAUNDER better than myself.
1621. FLETCHER, Thierry and Theodoret, v. 1. Keep constables waking, wear out stocks and whipcord, MAUNDER for buttermilk, etc.
1622. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1.
| Clause. … And every man to keep | |
| In his own path and circuit. | |
| Hig. Do you hear? | |
| You must hereafter MAUND on your own pads, he says. |
1625. JONSON, The Staple of News, ii.
| P. Can. A rogue, | |
| A very canter, I sir, one that MAUNDS | |
| Upon the pad. |
1665. R. HEAD, The English Rogue, pt. I. ch. v. p. 44 (1874). Having sufficiently warm’d our brains with humming Liquor, which our Lower (Silver) shall procure; if our deceitful MAUNDING (Begging) cannot.
1724. E. COLES, English Dictionary, s.v. MAUNDING, o. begging.
1748. T. DYCHE, A New General English Dictionary (5 ed.). MAUNDER (s.) … also the cant word for to beg.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
1876. M. E. BRADDON, Joshua Haggard, ch. vii. Who [a Devonshire lad] … had already unpacked the basket, or MAUND, as he called it.
2. (old cant).—To ask.
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, p. 86. MAUNDE of this morte what bene pecke is in her ken. Aske of this wyfe what good meate shee hath in her house.
