menavelings

menavelings

English

Etymology

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Noun

menavelings pl (plural only)

1. (slang, obsolete) leftovers; whatever remains behind.
   • 1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories (page 34)

     A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and 'menavelings' from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.

   • 1901, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (page 512)

     For many of the maize farms where, by reason of the “menavelings” from the grain crop, it is possible to get good supplies of pig grain at little cost, such a system would be admirable.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary