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mounseer arch. (maʊnˈsɪə(r)) An antiquated anglicized pronunciation of monsieur, which survived as a vulgarism down to the 19th c., and occasionally appears either in representations of illiterate speech or in derisive allusion to English prejudice against foreigners. (Cf. mossoo.)a 1641 Suckling Po...
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Mounseer Nongtongpaw
Mounseer Nongtongpaw is an 1807 poem thought to have been written by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley as a child. "A William Godwin Letter, and Young Mary Godwin's Part in Mounseer Nongongpaw".
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mossoo
mossoo (məˈsuː) A vulgar mispronunciation of monsieur, used in representations of illiterate speech or in derisive allusion to English patriotic prejudices. Cf. mounseer.1870 M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. vi. 129 You pick out any Mossoo you like. 1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 68 A stout fur-capped M...
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Chester Cup
1842: Alice Hawthorn
1843: Millepede
1844: Red Deer
1845: Intrepid
1846: Corranna
1847: St Lawrence
1848: Peep-o-Day-Boy
1849: Malton
1850: Mounseer
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monsieur
‖ monsieur (‖ məsj{obar}, məˈsjɜː) Forms: 6 monsure, -sire, -sie{uacu}, mounsire, -syre, Sc. monsour, 6–7 mouns(i)er, -sieur, 7 mouncer, -seur, monser, monnsieur, meunsier, 6– monsieur. Also jocularly 8–9 mounseer, 9 mossoo. [F.; originally two words, mon my, sieur lord. Cf. messire and monseigneur....
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1808 in poetry
Other Poems
Walter Scott, Marmion, 10 editions by 1821
Mary Shelley, see John Taylor
John Taylor, possibly, or Mary Shelley (uncertain attribution), Mounseer
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molly
▪ I. molly, n.1 (ˈmɒlɪ) Also 8 molley, 8– mollie. [f. moll n.1 1 + -y.] 1. (With capital M.) A familiar pet-form of the name Mary; often applied contemptuously to a ‘lass’, ‘wench’, and occas. to a prostitute. (Cf. moll.)1719 D'Urfey Pills I. 5 Town follies and Cullies, And Molleys and Dolleys, For ...
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Mary Shelley
Her first published work is often thought to have been Mounseer Nongtongpaw, comic verses written for Godwin's Juvenile Library when she was ten and a
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A Song of Patriotic Prejudice
Other Savoy operas continue in a similar vein: Iolanthe 'When Britain Really Ruled the Waves' and 'The Darned Mounseer' ('I shipped, d'ye see') from Ruddigore
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pass
▪ I. pass, n.1 (pɑːs, -æ-) Also 4 pas, pase, 5 paas, 5–6 passe. [In ME. pas, paas, a. F. pas:—L. passus step, pace, track, trace, etc. Orig. the same word as pace; in later use often associated with pass v., and thus in some senses not easily separated from pass n.2, F. passe.] I. Obs. senses: = pac...
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