Maunder

See MAUND, sense 1.

  Subs. (old).—A beggar; a CADGE-GLOAK (q.v.). Also MAUNDERER and MAUNDING-COVE.

  1611.  MIDDLETON, The Roaring Girle [DODSLEY, Old Plays (1825), vi. 108]. I am no such nipping Christian, but a MAUNDERER upon the pad, I confess.

  1622.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1. Our king and sovereign, monarch o’ the MAUNDERS.

  1650.  R. BROME, A Joviall Crew (PEARSON, iii. 377). My noble Springlove, the great commander of the MAUNDERS, and king of Canters.

  c. 1660.  Bagford Ballads [EBSWORTH, i. 195]. A Craver my Father, a MAUNDER my Mother.

  1665.  R. HEAD, The English Rogue, pt. I. ch. v. p. 50 (1874), s.v.

  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.

  1712.  J. SHIRLEY, The Triumph of Wit, ‘The MAUNDER’S Praise of His Strowling Mort’ [Title].

  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

  1823.  W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, ii. 6.

  1834.  W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, p. 183 (ed. 1864). Rogue or rascal, frater, MAUNDERER.