mounseer

You'd have been married to a French "mounseer" by now, 'and he laughed a little, as if there was something exceedingly funny in the idea.

The Rectory Children Mrs. Molesworth 1880

"I'd fight any mounseer, or Dutchman, or Portuguee as soon as look at him, 'tis on'y natural; but if a mounseer likes to give me twopence for a thing that's worth a penny -- why, I'll say thank 'ee and axe him -- leastways if there's any matey by as knows the lingo -- to buy another."

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

This water is an article of very large consumption in France; our English cooks have no idea to what an extent it is used by the _chefs_ in the land of the "darned mounseer."

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

This yere bear had a man with it, a mounseer, to judge from his tongue.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

That mounseer chap had divided his dinner with the bear one day; the greedy baste had swallowed his own share, and was watching his master out of them cunning eyes bears has.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

But, sir, I don't see any call for me to make out I'm a mounseer.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

I'm as positive as I sit here, that when a chap begins to talk French he loses all his English spirit, and feels all over him as like a mounseer as possible.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

A big lad, standing close to a gentleman on horseback, who was surveying the scene with evident interest, made an ugly face at one of the prisoners, and said, "Well, mounseer, how do you find yourself?"

The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale Arthur Judson Brown 1909

The frigate is unmanageable at present, and will continue so until they can get some sort of a jury-mast rigged for'ard; so we will fill on the schooner, and make a stretch to windward until we can get into a raking position, then drop down upon mounseer, and see what we can do with him.

The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

'Ere I takes up a blessed son of a pop-gun what calls hisself anything you care to mention, and turns out to be a blessed mounseer at the end of it!

St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872