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单词 cornmudgin
释义

cornmudginn.

Etymology: Apparently alteration of cormogeon, variant of curmudgeon n., with the first syllable assimilated to corn n.1, used as a rendering of Latin frumentarius.
Obsolete. rare.
A corn-dealer.
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iv. xv. 150 A rich corne-mudgin [L. frumentarius], that with a quart (or measure of corne of two pounds) had bought the freedome of his fellow cittizens.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. xxxv. 1004 The fines that certeine cornmudgins [L. frumentarios] paid, for hourding up..their graine.
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