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/mʌnˈdʌŋɡəs/ · noun
(obsolete) Offal; waste animal product; organic matter unfit for consumption..
Claret is the universal medicine here, and mundungus port the bane and stupefaction of all society.
Whom he brings in among us And bribes with mundungus;
The whole town of Ryde could not supply a single leaf [of tea]; for as to what Mrs. Francis and the shop called by that name, it was not of Chinese growth. It did not indeed in the least resemble tea, either in smell or taste, or in any particular, unless in being a leaf: for it was in truth no other than a tobacco of the mundungus species.
Nobody can doubt, particularly if country be taken into the consideration, that the grinders and retailers of Mundungus were among the author's encouragers. … that he had told the Secretary of the Treasury, that if the Mundungus was taxed, “he would be damn'd if ever he forgave him, while he had an existence.”
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Mundungus means (obsolete) Offal; waste animal product; organic matter unfit for consumption..
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Claret is the universal medicine here, and mundungus port the bane and stupefaction of all society.
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