mundungus

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • noun A stinking tobacco.

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  • noun Offal; waste animal product; organic matter unfit for consumption.

Examples

  • So saying, she sat down to her wheel, and seized, while she spun, her jet-black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent such clouds of vile mundungus vapour as must have cleared the premises of Lady Penelope, had she not been strong in purpose to share the expected confession of the invalid.

    Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well

  • It did not indeed in the least resemble tea, either in smell or taste, or in any particular, unless in being a leaf; for it was in truth no other than a tobacco of the mundungus species.

    The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies

Note

This word comes from the Spanish 'mondongo,' tripe, entrails.