manavelins
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Etymology
Unknown, probably related to manarvel (“To steal food or supplies from a ship's store”). Possibly related to minnow (“A relatively small and insignificant person or organization”).
Pronunciation
Noun
manavelins pl (plural only)
- (nautical slang) Odds and ends, leftovers, or scraps of food.
- 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.
- 2011, V. Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 183:
- He efficiently loaded our bicycles and manavelins onto a waiting Volkswagen bus.
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References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “menavelings”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 50.
- “Menavelings” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary , 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 224.