Lexicographical Neighbors of Magging
Literary usage of Magging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... And »till as p;tst the magging sea-gale weak, Thr long lank leaf how'd fluttering
o'er her cheek. i That pallid cheek was flush'd : her eager look ..."
2. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"What a caw- magging girl that is." CESS-POOL. A receptacle for the sediment of
a drain. Brockett and Forby insert this word, and trace it either to the Fr. ..."
3. Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-ton by John Badcock (1823)
"The mace-cove is he who will cheat, take in, or swindle, as often as may be.
Mad-cap—a frisky wild lass, full of fun. . ... Mag, magging—monotonous endless ..."
4. Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton by John Badcock (1823)
"The mace-cove is he who will cheat, take in, or swindle, as often as may be.
Mad-cap—a frisky wild lass, full of fun. Mag, magging—monotonous endless talk; ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... ppr. magging. [In allusion to the chatter of the magpie; < mag1, the magpie: see
... ppr. magging. [Also magg; conjectured to be of Gipsy origin; cf. ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"When they came on board they had a regular magging match, during which we drifted
half-way back to ..."
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