Mundunʹgus.

Bad tobacco.

⁂ Mundungus, in Sterne’s Sentimental Journey (1768), is meant for Samuel Sharp, a surgeon, who published Letters from Italy. Tobias Smollett, who published Travels through France and Italy (1766), “one continual snarl.” was called “Smelfungus.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Mum
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumchance
Mummy
Mummy Wheat
Mumpers
Mumping Day
Munchausen (Baron)
Mundane Egg (The)
Mundilfori
Mundungus
Munera
Munkar and Nakir
Munnin
Muntabur [Mount Tabor]
Murad
Muscadins of Paris
Muscular Christianity
Muses
Museum
Mushroom (an archaic form is mushrump)