mangonist

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Noun

mangonist (plural mangonists)

  1. (obsolete) One who mangonizes.
    • 1698, L. Menton, William Coward, “On Horſe-Jockeys” (chapter CXIX), in Money Maſters All Things: Or, Satyrical Poems,  , page 77:
      The Mangoniſt does feed and graith his Horſe, / In hopes that he thereby may fill his Purſe / With exoptable Caſh, which will revive / His drooping Thoughts, when he finds he ſhall thrive: […]
  2. (obsolete) A slave dealer.
  3. (obsolete, figurative) A strumpet.
    • 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. , London: T P for Iohn Hodgets, , →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
      Mal: Deere my lou'd friend, let mee bee full with you / Know Sir, the ſtrongeſt argument that ſpeakes / Againſt the ſoules eternitie is luſt, / That Wiſemans folly, and the fooles wiſedome : / But to grow wild in looſe laſciuiouſneſſe, / Giuen vp to hear, and ſenſuall Appetite : / Nay to expoſe your health, and ſtrength, and name, / Your precious time, and with that time the hope / Of due preferment aduantageous meanes, / Of any worthy end to the ſtale vſe, / The common boſome of a money Creature / One that ſels humane fleſh : a Mangoniſt.
    • 1680, The Revenge: or, A Match in Newgate , London:   W. Cademan, Act I, scene i. A ſtreet, page 4:
      I hate, I nauſeate a common proſtitute, who trades with all for gain; one that ſells human fleſh, a mangoniſt.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mangonist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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