1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Magging. Getting money by cheating
countrymen with balls, patent safes, etc.
Mag’s diversion. See Meg.
Maga, subs. (literary).—Blackwood’s Magazine.
Magdalene, subs. (colloquial).—A reformed prostitute.
1693. Congreve, Old Batchelor, iv. 6. You don’t love mutton, you
magdalen unconverted?
1818. Lady Morgan, Fl. Macarthy, ii. ii. 79 [1819]. I will not have
my house made a magdalen Asylum to a parcel of canting
methodistical thieves.
1873. Wilkie Collins, The New Magdalene [Title].
1883. Trollope, Autobiography, p. 239. Very little of the Magdalene
about her—because though there may be many Magdalenes they are not
often found.
Mag-flying, subs. (thieves’).—See quot. Cf. Mag = halfpenny.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 26 March, p. 2, col. 8. Of the twenty-nine
‘night charges’, by far the greater number were of ... boys for mag
flying, i.e., ‘pitch and toss’.
Maggie, subs. (Scots’).—A harlot. Cf. Kitty.
1603. Philotus, S. P. R. [1792], iii. 50. Ye trowit to get ane burd
of blisse, To have ane of thir maggies.
Maggie Rab (or Robb), subs. phr. (Scots’).—1. A bad half-penny.