mumper

According to Franicis Grose’s 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a mumper was a genteel beggar.

Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008

According to Franicis Grose’s 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a mumper was a genteel beggar.

Christmas Gift-Giving Joanna Waugh 2008

It is by his being taught to contemplate himself as an out-law, as an out-cast, as a beggar, as a mumper, as one thrown as it were on a dunghill at an immense distance from his Creator, and who must make approaches by creeping, and cringing to intermediate beings, that he conceives either a contemptuous disregard for everything under the name of religion, or becomes indifferent, or turns what he calls devout.

Science, religion and lucre ... Frank Wilson 2006

What an honest fellow was that same mumper who had forewarned us of all these things, and bid us take notice of the mangers above the racks!

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

His hutch, and that of the warren-cats his collaterals, was a long, spick-and-span new rack, a-top of which (as the mumper told us) some large stately mangers were fixed in the reverse.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

His hutch, and that of the warren-cats his collaterals, was a long, spick-and-span new rack, a-top of which (as the mumper told us) some large stately mangers were fixed in the reverse.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

As we entered their den, said a common mumper, to whom we had given half a teston, Worshipful culprits, God send you a good deliverance!

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

What an honest fellow was that same mumper who had forewarned us of all these things, and bid us take notice of the mangers above the racks!

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002