or needy, subs. (tramps’).—See quot. 1823. Hence NEEDY-MIZZLING.
1819. J. H. VAUX, Memoirs, s.v.
1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue [EGAN], s.v. NEEDY MIZZLER. A poor ragged object of either sex.
1834. W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, III., v. Though a NEEDY MIZZLER mysel, I likes to see a cove vot’s vel dressed.
1868. Temple Bar, xxiv., 536. His game is NEEDY-MIZZLING. He’ll go without a shirt, perhaps, and beg one from house to house. Ibid. NEEDY-MIZZLERS, mumpers, shallow-coves.
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, XIV. All I get is my kip and a clean mill tog, a pair of pollies and a stoock, and what few medazas I can make out of the lodgers and NEEDIES.
