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mosker
▪ I. mosker, n. slang. (ˈmɒskə(r)) [f. mosk v. + -er1.] One who ‘moskeneers’.1883 Daily Tel. 9 July 3/1 The ‘mosker’..is, in slang vernacular, one who makes a living by taking advantage of the business incapacity of persons engaged in the pawnbroking trade. 1905 Daily News 1 Mar. 6 There is an avera... Oxford English Dictionary
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muscane
† muscane, a. Sc. Obs. Also muskane. [Of doubtful origin; cf. Gael. mosgain ‘having dry-rot, as wood’ (M{supc}Alpine), Irish mosgán ‘rotten, decayed’ (O'Reilly); also Norw. mosken of the same meaning, and mosker v.] Of wood: Rotten, decaying. Warner mistook the word in the Bellenden passage for the ... Oxford English Dictionary
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