Definition of Mungo

1. n. A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.

2. n. A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard- spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, -- a distinction often disregarded.

Definition of Mungo

1. Noun. Low quality wool. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mungo

1. a low-quality wool [n -GOS or -GOES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mungo

munerary
muneration
munerations
mung
mung bean
mung bean nuclease
mung beans
munga
mungbean
mungcorn
mungcorns
munge
munged
munges
munging
mungo (current term)
mungoes
mungoos
mungoose
mungooses
mungos
mungous
mungouses
mungrel
mungrels
mungs
muni
municide
municides
municipal

Literary usage of Mungo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1811)
"Me wish to de Lord me was dead ! [F.xit. mungo. Lewd you self, no lewd here; play away; never mind her. Enter DON DIEGO with URSULA, icho after tlic A'egro ..."

2. The British Drama: Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language by Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1804)
"Enter mungo with a hamper. mungo. Go, get you down, you damn hamper, ... mungo. La, massa, how could yon have a heart to lick poor neger man, as you lick me ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"And mungo Campbell then told the deponent, ... after five in the evening, and died, as he thinks, about six, mungo Campbell having then looked at his watch. ..."

4. Cumberland's British Theatre by George Daniel (1826)
"Now you shall hear— mungo. Why what de devil, he cut off her head two times ? mungo. ... Ah, mungo, if you had heard me sing when I was young. mungo. ..."

5. Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq.: Interspersed with Characters and by Thomas Davies (1781)
"... —mungo—Mrs. Arne-^fhe Hypocrite, taken from Cib,-> bers Non- "Juror—French Manners and • i ... who played the part of mungo with much ..."

6. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"mungo Park (Travels, 8vo, 1817, vol. ip 451) says, "No trial for this offence came under my observation while I was in Africa, and I therefore suppose that ..."

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