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† cornmudgin Obs. rare—1.
App. an alteration of cormogeon, curmudgeon, with the first syllable assimilated to corn, used as a rendering of L. frumentarius corn-dealer.
1600Holland Livy iv. xv. 150 A rich corne-mudgin [frumentarius], that with a quart (or measure of corne of two pounds) had bought the freedome of his fellow cittizens. Ibid. xxxviii. xxxv. 1004 The fines that certeine cornmudgins [frumentarios] paid, for hourding up..their graine. |