subs. (showmen’s).—See quot.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 201. [Ethiopian serenader loq.] ‘We could then, after our ‘MUNGARE’ and ‘buvare’ (that’s what we call eat and drink, and I think it’s broken Italian), carry home our 5s. or 6s. each, easy.’ Ibid., 149. We [strolling actors] call breakfast, dinner, tea, supper, all of them ‘NUMGARE’; and all beer, brandy, water, or soup, are ‘beware.’
