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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
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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