mafficking

• “We have as yet little cause for "mafficking," but there is very little doubt that it will occur on a grandiose scale before the war is over.”

  The War and the Churches

• “In South Africa the colonial teaches the islander how to shoot, and the officers muddle and blunder; while at home the street people play hysterically at mafficking, and the War Office lowers the stature for enlistment.”

  THE SEA WIFE

• “The crowds in the streets increased by hundreds of thousands, and though the police sternly put down mafficking, drunkenness and rough play abounded.”

  CORONATION DAY

• “In my mafficking about town last night with my musician friends, one of them announced that he'd had a lung and heart imaging recently and the doc had found three spots on his lungs and that he had a heart condition.”

  The Noose Around Our Necks

• “After my divorce from my #2 wife, I shillyshallied about living where I chose, mafficking about the U.S., getting divorced in Haiti and staying there 3 months, then coming back and rocking and rolling all over California, then dropping in on Texas again as I flew back to NYC to began life in NYC Volume 2, another dawning, another chance, another effort.”

  From Out of the Past Come the Thundering Hoofbeats

• “Yep, Scott, we are laughing like mafficking hyenas with our noses filled with the fragrance of rotting red meat, though hopefully still juicy with blood, at ourselves, for isn't each person's life simply a character in either a badly drawn or a superdrawn cartoon?”

  This Blog Is 6 Months Old TODAY...and it reads like it, too!

• “Without the squeeze of crowds, the jibes of detractors, the mad mephitic mafficking of traffic, perhaps he was both more focused and less restrained.”

  Skinny Legs and All

• “There was no brag or bounce about him, no hideousness of noise or mafficking, no hatred of foreigners or cruelty of uncharity, but a grim steadfastness of determination which meant that, so far as he might, Bates would do or die.”

  Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914

• “As in depressing circumstances of a fortnight ago the House betrayed no sign of dejection or variation from resolve to see the fight out to a finish, so to-day it does not present itself in mafficking mood.”

  Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914

• “On Armistice day he quite let himself go, cackling and mafficking round the yard in a manner almost absurd.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919

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