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 1863. G. A. Sala, Breakfast in Bed, 'On Things Going,' Essay v. p. 105 (1864). 'Tis like an old hat that has been molokered, or ironed and greased into a simulacrum of its pristine freshness.

1892. Westminster Gaz., 4 Aug., p. 3. Even our beth customerth—vorking men ath likth a good molocker (molocker, it appears, is the trade term for renovated old chapeaux).

Molrower, subs. (common).—A whoremonger. For synonyms see Mutton-monger.

Molrowinq, subs. (common).—1. Whoring. Cf. sense 2. See Greens and Ride.

2. (common).—Caterwauling.

1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 42. Beats 'Andel's molrowings a buster.

Mome, subs. (old).—A blockhead. For synonyms see Buffle and Cabbage-head.

c.1550. Inglelend, Disobedient Child [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 315]. Me her husband, as a stark mome, With knocking and mocking she will handle.

1557-8. Jacob & Esau [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 208]. Or whether Jacob have any, that peakish mome.

1560. Nice Wanton [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 165]. I would sit quaking like a mome for fear.

1562-3. Jack Juggler [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 138]. But if I were a wise woman as I am a mome, I should make myself, as good cheer at home.

b.1583. Flodden Field [Child, Ballads, vii. 73]. Away with this foolish mome.

1593. Shakspeare, Comedy of Errors, iii. 1. 32. Mome, malt-horse, capon idiot, patch.

1606. Drayton, Skeltoniad [Chalmers, iv. 428]. Parnassus is not clome By every such mome.

1661. Brome, Songs, p. 105. Words are but wind, but blows come home, A stout-tongu'd lawyer's but a mome.

Monarch, subs. (thieves').—1. A name. Also moneker, moniker, monarcher, and monick.

1851. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 232. What is your monekeer?

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

1879. Macmillan's Mag., xl. 502. At the station they asked me what my MONARCH was.

1891. Sporting Life, 1 April. Then came Perrin (otherwise 'Curley') and 'The Pocket Knifton' (whose real moniker did not transpire).

1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, 83. I go by the monarcher of North Eye ever since. Ibid. 93. I can't read or write my MONARCHER.

1895. Times, 11 Nov., p. 3, col. 5. 'Silver Robbery'. The van is all right. I have had the monnick taken off.

2. (Eton College).—The ten-oared boat.

3. (old).—Formerly a guinea; now a sovereign. For synonyms see Canary.

Big monarcher (tramps').—A person of note; a big-bug (q.v.).

1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, 84. It's always a bad day for me if a big monarcher preaches.

Monas, subs. (Stock Exchange).—Isle of Man Railway shares.

Monday. See St. Monday.

Monday, subs. (common).—An intensitive. Cf. Awful, Bleeding, Bloody, etc.

1892. Kipling, Barrack-Room-Ballads, 'Snarleyow.' An' if one wheel was juicy, you may lay your MONDAY head 'Twas juicier for the niggers when the case began to spread.

Mondayish (or Mondayfied), adj. (common).—See quots.

1864. Fraser's Magazine, March, p. 382. Sunday is not a day of rest to him [the clergyman]; it is a day of grateful work, in which many week duties are laid aside; but it is a day of work, the reaction from which has created the clerical slang word Mondayish.