mongcorn Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈmʌŋkɔːn)
Forms: 3 mancorn, 5 mongorne, 5–6 mong(e)corne, 6 mon-, muncorne, 7 mun(c)k-corn, mungcorne, 7, 9 muncorn, 8 (in Dicts.) mangcorn, 8–9 mungcorn, (9 monk-corn).
[f. mong n.1 + corn n.1]
‘Mixed corn’; a mixture of two kinds of grain (usually wheat and rye) sown together; = maslin2.
| 1263 Muniment Magd. Coll. Oxf. (1882) 144 Mancorn. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 334/2 Mestlyone, or monge corne..(S. mongorne), mixtilio. 1552 Huloet, Beere corne, barley bygge, or moncorne. 1572 J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 9 b, Some [make bread] of Miscelling, or Muncorne, as in Worcester Shyre. 1620 Markham Farew. Husb. 117 Masline, or as some call it Munck-corne or Blend-corne, being part Rye, and part Wheate mixed together. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 341 They sow it with Muncorn or Miscellane in the place of wheat. 1805 Duncumb Agric. Heref. 66 Rye, which with an equal proportion of wheat, constituted the bread-corn used in religious houses before their suppression, is now sown but sparingly, but grain thus mixed in flour during a time of scarcity, or dearness, still retains the name of monk-corn, from the circumstances above-mentioned. 1855 Morton's Cycl. Agric. II. 724 Muncorn (Herefords.), a mixture of different seeds sown to come up as one crop. |
b. attrib., as mongcorn bread, mongcorn heap; also as adj. = mingled, mixed, in mongcorn team.
| c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 786 And mene mong-corn bred to her mete fongen. 1598 Bp. Hall Sat. v. ii. 116 A jolly rounding of a whole foote broad From of the mong-corne heape shall Trebius loade. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Impr. xxv. 239 Misslin or Munckcorn-bread, made of Rye and Wheate together. 1839 Hereford. Gloss. 128 A ‘muncorn team’ means a team of horses and oxen mixed. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., Muncorn bread's very..good, but theer's nuthin' like a bit o' good w'eaten flour. |