Big monarcher (tramps’).—A person of note; a big-bug (q.v.).
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, 84. It’s always a bad day for me if a
big monarcher preaches.
Monas, subs. (Stock Exchange).—Isle of Man Railway shares.
Monday. See St. Monday.
Monday, subs. (common).—An intensitive. Cf. Awful, Bleeding, Bloody,
etc.
1892. Kipling, Barrack-Room-Ballads, ‘Snarleyow.’ An’ if one wheel
was juicy, you may lay your monday head ’Twas juicier for the
niggers when the case began to spread.
Mondayish (or Mondayfied), adj. (common).—See quots.
1864. Fraser’s Magazine, March, p. 382. Sunday is not a day of rest
to him [the clergyman]; it is a day of grateful work, in which many
week duties are laid aside; but it is a day of work, the reaction
from which has created the clerical slang word mondayish.
1885. Ill. Lon. News, 26 Sept., p. 331. When one feels fagged and
wearied, with nerves overstrained, and altogether in that used-up
condition that a parson, after a hard Sunday’s work, terms
mondayish.
English synonyms. In the Idles; not-up-to-work; run down; seedy; off
colour; off it; off the spot; out of it; shilly-shally; soft in the
back; stale.
French synonyms. Etre carne (popular); s’engrouillé (popular);
s’enrossé (popular); être un Flémard: also avoir la flème or flemme;
n’en pas foutre un clou, un coup, or une secousse (= to be
superlatively idle); malade du pouce; mou comme une loche; un
Saint-lâche (= a mondayish workman).
Mondongo. See Mundungus.
Money, subs. (colloquial).—1. Money’s worth; a way or line of investing
money.
1851–61. Mayhew, London Lab., i. 95. I sell dry fruit, sir, in
February and March, because I must be doing something, and green
fruit’s not my money then.