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Intriguingly there is not one instance of any of these delightfully varied forms of manavilins to be found in the current run of Australian Newspapers Beta, though it is definitely present in Webster under manavelins or manavilins and, elsewhere, cross-referenced under menavelings, viz. “odds and ends of food; leftovers, also fancy or made dishes.”
Manavalums 2009
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Intriguingly there is not one instance of any of these delightfully varied forms of manavilins to be found in the current run of Australian Newspapers Beta, though it is definitely present in Webster under manavelins or manavilins and, elsewhere, cross-referenced under menavelings, viz. “odds and ends of food; leftovers, also fancy or made dishes.”
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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No. 123, March 1901, p. 319) where, with racist disapproval, the Malay passengers aboard the Countess of Glenavon are “recipients of many dainty remnants from the saloon table, besides other ‘menavelings,’ that by rights should have gone into the boatswain’s mess.”
Manavalums 2009
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No. 123, March 1901, p. 319) where, with racist disapproval, the Malay passengers aboard the Countess of Glenavon are “recipients of many dainty remnants from the saloon table, besides other ‘menavelings,’ that by rights should have gone into the boatswain’s mess.”
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word menavelings
(pl. noun) - Odd money remaining after the daily accounts are tallied at a railway booking-office, usually divided amongst the clerks.
--John Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
January 16, 2018