subs. (common).—Scandalous jobber; pettifogging slander; talk. [Short and derisive for Scandalum magnatum.
1883. G. A. S[ALA] [Illustrated London News, 31 March, 310, 3]. The audience have to listen to the bucolic drolleries of his groom, Saul Mash, and the provincial SCANMAG of the notabilities of the little country town. Ibid. (1861), Twice Round the Clock, 1 P.M., Par. 2. The swarms of flies … inebriating themselves with saccharine suction in the grocers’ shops, and noisily buzzing their SCANMAG in private parlours.
