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manavilins, manavlins, n. pl. slang.|məˈnævɪlɪnz, məˈnævlɪnz|
Also malhavelins (Whitby Gloss., 1876), manablins, manarolins, menavelings.
[Of obscure origin: app. a vbl. n. in -ing1. Cf. manarvel v.]
Small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare.
1865Hotten's Slang Dict., Manablins, broken victuals. Menavelings, odd money remaining after the daily accounts are made up at a railway booking-office,—usually divided among the clerks. 1887G. B. Goode Fisheries of U.S. Sect. v. II. 228 To the above-mentioned fare should be added,..the ‘manarolins [? read manarvlins] of the whale⁓men—that is, fresh meat, vegetables, milk, butter, eggs, and fruits. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxii, He'd a stool and table too..this Robinson Crusoe cove. No end of manavilins either. 1902E. B. Kennedy Black Police Queensl. viii. 101 Odds and ends..are described in the Colony by the one useful old naval word ‘manavlins’, a term which embraces every small thing. |