mumper
(British, obsolete, slang) A beggar.
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(British, obsolete, slang) A beggar.
Here for a moment, running my eye along the Piazza, which had its usual fringe of flower girls and mumpers, swearing porters and hackney coaches, I thought my man with the white handkerchief had not come; but shifting my gaze to the Litt…
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