or munjari, mungare, subs. (strollers’ and tramps’).—See quots.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, iii. 149. We [strolling actors] call breakfast, dinner, tea, supper, all of them MUNGARE.
1876. C. HINDLEY, ed. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 170. Help you and your ‘school’ to some dinarly and MUNGARLY, i.e., money and food.
1889. Answers, 11 May, p. 374. The ‘clobber’ (old clothes) which have been presented by charitable persons are exchanged and sold, broken meat and scraps of bread (‘Bull and MUNJARI’ they are called) are given out liberally, and the blind men and cripples are the jolliest crowd imaginable.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, x. I … went to one of my regular padding-kens to sell the MUNGARLY to some of the needies there for nova soldi. Ibid., 12. Chuck it, we’ll go and have a bit of MUNGARLY now.
