Mumpers

But to tell the truth, I don't know that sympathy with the mumpers was the prevailing sentiment at the Corners. " ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

Widows and other destitute women known as “mumpers” went begging with two-handled pots into which they received the wheat. ❋ Joanna Waugh (2008)

But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted ❋ Unknown (2002)

Mine were a very bad lot -- British (except the twelve native mumpers), including some brave Canadians. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

He paused by the second and ushered me into a sleeping-chamber, which, though narrow, was comfortable enough -- a vast improvement, at any rate, on the mumpers 'lodgings I had been used to for many months past. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

"They 're mumpers," said Miss Sandus, pushing the cake-stand towards him. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)

She belonged to a Hampshire gipsy tribe, and had been on a visit to a relative down in the East counties, who died on the road, leaving her to be brought home by these tramps: she called them mumpers, and made faces when she spoke of them. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Good evening, my mumpers; make your bows to this gentleman who has come to bowse with us to-night. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

There I fell in with some ballad singers and mumpers, who were making very merry, and who asked me what was the matter. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted Lent-preachers, your little draggle-tailed father confessors, who during all that time of their reign damn all husbands that run astray three fathom and a half below the very lowest pit of hell. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)

There was a sort of club also in that street, of larking sort of young men, and when they perceived that the others gave the old man money to get rid of his squeaking, they sent him out money, with orders to stay and play to them, so then the others sent out more for him to go away, and between the two, the old fellow brought home more money than all the cadgers and mumpers in the district. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

There was a sort of club also in that street, of larking sort of young men; and when they perceived that the others gave the old man money to get rid of his squeaking, they sent him out money, with orders to stay and play to them, so then the others sent out more for him to go away, and between the two, the old fellow brought home more money than all the cadgers and mumpers in the district. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

'homes,' that is, the assurance of an untroubled reception upon their customary camping-ground, is a peculiarity of the gipsies, distinguishing them, equally with their cleanliness and thriftiness, from mumpers and the common wanderers. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Matthew [Tufts]...kids a [fucken] Mumper, Ethan [Pollock] defines the word Mumper ❋ Nickandry (2010)

[Cindy] was [blowing me] and I finally got to perform The Mumper on her. Getting my [big toe] in her was tough. ❋ LJCCHI (2020)

[The mumper] you are [wearing] isn't as [good as] the one I am wearing. ❋ Dan (2005)

"[Awww], look at her, she's such a [wee] [mumper]." ❋ Mr Pseudonym Anonymous (2009)

[oi] you old hedge mumper, you aint worth [a cup] of [cold piss]. ❋ Harold Steptoe (2007)