magnum bonum
(ˈmægnəm ˈbəʊnəm, ˈbɒnəm)
[neut. sing. of L. magnus great and bonus good.]
1. A particular kind of large yellow cooking-plum. Also magnum bonum plum.
| 1721 Mortimer Husb. II. 298 The Bonum Magnum a fair yellowish green Plumb. 1769 Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 230 To preserve Magnum Bonum Plums. 1813 Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 257 Two fruits can scarcely be conceived more different in colour, size, and appearance, than the wild plum and the rich Magnum bonum. 1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum I. 183 A basket of plums..as unlike magnum bonums as could well be. |
2. A kind of potato.
| 1882 Garden 4 Feb. 75/2 In..1879 my employer wished me to plant half a rood of ground with Magnum Bonums. |
† 3. Sc. (Meaning not clear: ? = magnum n. 1.)
| 1790 Burns Ball. Dumfries Election, While Welsh, who ne'er yet flinched his ground High wav'd his magnum⁓bonum round With Cyclopean fury. |
4. A large-barrelled steel pen.
| 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour (1864) I. 287 The street-stationers do not go beyond 2s. the gross, which is for magnum bonums. |