subs. (old).—Bad tobacco.

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  1659.  Lady Alimony, ii., 2 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 291]. Sir Gregory Shapeless, a MUNDUNGO monopolist.

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  1663.  SIR R. HOWARD, The Committee, ii. A Pipe of the worst MUNDUNGUS.

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  1671.  SHADWELL, The Humorists, iii. 41. A Glass of Windy-Bottle-Ale in one hand, and a Pipe of MUNDUNGUS in the other.

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  d. 1680.  BUTLER, Remains [1759, ii. 107]. Spoiled the tobacco for it presently became MUNDUNGUS.

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  1689.  J. PHILLIPS, A Satyr against Hypocrites, 13.

        Now steams of Garlick whiffing thro’ the nose
Stank worse than Luther’s socks, or foot-boy’s toes,
With these MUNDUNGUS, and a breath that smells
Like standing-pools in subterraneall cells.

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  1703.  WARD, The London Spy, Part IV. p. 80. The mixtures of scents that arose from MUNDUNGUS-TOBACCO.

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  d. 1704.  TOM BROWN, Works, iv. 16. To nasty MUNDUNGUS, and heath’nish small beer.

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  1755.  JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. MUNDUNGUS, n. f. Stinking tobacco. A cant word.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  1824.  SCOTT, St. Ronan’s Well, xxxii. Her jet-black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent such clouds of vile MUNDUNGUS vapour as must have cleared the premises of Lady Penelope.

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  Adj. (old).—Stinking.

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  1750.  ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, 50. To drink MUNDUNGUS ALE.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. MONDONGO. Filthy; full of stench; it stinks beyond the power of endurance.

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