subs. (thieves’).—1.  A name. Also MONEKER, MONIKER, MONARCHER, and MONICK.

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  1851.  H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 232. What is your MONEKEER?

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.

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  1879.  Macmillan’s Magazine, XL. 502. At the station they asked me what my MONARCH was.

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  1891.  Sporting Life, 1 April. Then came Perrin (otherwise ‘Curley’) and ‘The Pocket Knifton’ (whose real MONIKER did not transpire).

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  1893.  P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, 83. I go by the MONARCHER of North Eye ever since. Ibid., 93. I can’t read or write my MONARCHER.

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  1895.  Times, 11 Nov., p. 3, col. 5, ‘Silver Robbery.’ The van is all right. I have had the MONNICK taken off.

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  2.  (Eton College).—The ten-oared boat.

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  3.  (old).—Formerly a guinea; now a sovereign. For synonyms, see CANARY.

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  BIG MONARCHER (tramps’).—A person of note; a BIG-BUG (q.v.).

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  1893.  P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, 84. It’s always a bad day for me if a BIG MONARCHER preaches.

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