▪ I. mong, n.1
(mʌŋ)
Also 8–9 mung, 9 mang.
[Aphetic form of ymong n. (OE. ᵹemang).]
1. A mingling, mixture. Obs. exc. dial.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 384 Þis mong woreð so þe eien of þe heorte þet heo ne mei iknowen God. a 1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 For eiðer is unþolelich ant iþis ferliche mong þe leatere þurh þe earre derueð þe mare. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words s.v., ‘All of a mang loike’: i.e. all, as it were, mashed or jumbled together. |
† b. Intercourse, commerce. Obs.
| a 1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 185 Ich nabbe no mong, ne felawscipe, ne priuete wiþ þe world. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7384 Wyþ false Godes ȝe make monge. |
2. Applied to mixtures of different kinds of meal (the precise application varying according to locality).
| [1380 in Essex Rev. July (1904) 146, 3 acres of peasemong & 3 of benemong.] c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 785/12 Hec mixtilio, mo[n]ge. 1787 Grose Provinc. Gloss., Mung, food for chickens. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Mung, a mixture of coarse meal with milk or pot-liquor for the food of dogs, pigs, or poultry. 1888 Sheffield Gloss., Mung, a mixed food for horses. |
3. A crowd. dial.
| 1877 E. Leigh Cheshire Gloss., Mung, a crowd, a rabble. 1883 C. F. Smith Southernisms in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 51 A student..(from West Tennessee) was heard to say recently: ‘Well, if I fail on my examination, I'll have the consolation that I am in the mang’ [i.e. ‘the crowd’]. |
4. attrib. See quot. 1872.
| 1849 N.Y. Express 17 Feb. (Bartlett), As many of our citizens who intend to go to California may base their arrangements upon the mung news of some of the papers, we conceive it to be our duty to state that most of these letters are fictions. 1872 Schele de Vere Americanisms 618 Mung news means confused news; statements which seem contradictory are, in like manner, called mung. |
▪ II. mong, n.2
(mʌŋ)
Austral. slang abbrev. of mongrel n.
| 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Aug. 39/1 And the mong fired him! 1934 Ibid. 30 May 20/3 The silliest dogs for miles around live in Warrnambool; these mongs crouch down when a car approaches and spring at the front wheels with snappy barks. 1956 G. Casey in Coast to Coast 1955–6 80 Reckon Charlie Spend's having trouble with that mong of his. 1966 [see heel v.1 4]. 1967 [see bludge v.]. 1967 Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl., Mong, a mongrel dog... 2. Hence, pejorative for any dog, even of the best pedigree. 1970 J. Cleary Helga's Web v. 77, I can't lose. I backed a mong last night that had only three legs..and it finished up beating the bunny home. |
▪ III. † mong, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 mangian, 3 mang, 7 mung.
[OE. mangian = OS. mangôn, ON. manga:—OTeut. *maŋgôjan, f. L. mango dealer, trader. In quot. 1606 a back-formation from monger n.1 (which Holland spells munger).]
a. intr. To traffic (with). b. trans. To barter.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xliv. 333 Hwæt forstent æniᵹum menn ðæt, ðeah he mangiᵹe ðæt he ealne ðisne middanᵹeard aᵹe, ᵹif he his saule forspildt? c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Th.) I. 412 Mid sceapum he mangað. a 1225 Ancr. R. 146 Seint Gregorie awundreð him, & seið þet men beoð wode þet treoweð so vuele [v.r. mangen swa uuele]. Ibid. 407 Vndeore he makeð God..þet for eni worldliche luue his luue trukie [v.r. manges]. a 1300 E.E. Psalter ci. 27 And als hilinge wende saltou þa, And þai sal be turned [v.r. manged, Vulg. mutabuntur] swa. 1606 Holland Sueton. 68 He was none of these that lie in the winde to mung and catch at Inheritances. |
▪ IV. mong, v.2 dial.
Also mung.
[app. f. mong n.1]
† 1. intr. ? To mingle (with). Obs.
| a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. xvi. 52 With murthes monie mote heo monge, that brid so breme in boure. |
2. trans. To mix; also, to knead.
| 1790 Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Mung, to mix. Worcest. 1810 Marshall Rev. Rep. Agric., West. 334 note, The term in use, for this mixed mongrel crop,..is..mong corn; doubtless from the obsolete verb mong to mix. 1893 Broad Norfolk 17 To mung is used as meaning to knead dough. |
▪ V. mong, prep.
(mʌŋ)
Now always written 'mong (Sc. 'mang). Also 3–4 mang.
[In ME. an aphetic form of amang, among, or imong (OE. ᵹemang) ymong prep.; since the 16th c. only poetical shortening of among.]
Among.
| c 1200 Ormin 239 Þatt icc ne beo mang wimmannkinn Till hæþinng butenn chilldre. c 1205 Lay. 10292, & mong [c 1275 a-mong] heom seoluen vnimete seorȝen. a 1300 Cursor M. 10274 Þe tre þat bers na fruit to hand, Mang oþer tres aght not to stand. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. iii. v. 94 How som ere thou speakst 'mong other things, I shall digest it? 1640 Habington Q. Arragon ii. i. C 2 b, Tis that will make thee held a potent Peere, Mong men oth' Pike, of buffe, and bandeliere. 1678 Butler Hud. iii. ii. 351 'Mong these there was a Politician, With more Heads than a Beast in Vision. 1786 Burns Vision ii. v, 'Mong swelling floods of reeking gore. 1796 Macneill Waes o' War ii. 60 Thrice frae aff the ground he started,..Thrice..Sigh'd—and sank 'mang heaps o' slain. 1858 W. T. Matson Poems 3 The breeze that 'mong the branches makes a stir Of leaves. |