mundungus

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.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

I secretly think John wanted to give Old Jarhead an excuse to use ‘mundungus’ in a conversation…

Single Word Open Thread #1 « Whatever 2007

I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using mundungus with nepheligenous results.

Single Word Open Thread #1 « Whatever 2007

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 Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

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 1900

At a dinner which was given at Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Duke of Gloucester, as Chancellor of the University, when the cloth was removed, Parr at once started his pipe and began, says one who was present, "blowing a cloud into the faces of his neighbours, much to their annoyance, and causing royalty to sneeze by the stimulating stench of mundungus."

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

I stick to my own mundungus; any novelty disturbs my thoughts.

Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880

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.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

English travellers, neither of the smellfungus, the mundungus, or she sentimental-sans-sentiment, tribe, set out from Paris, on their return to the metropolis of their own country.

Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale 1786