"Mungarly casa" Definition

Definitions for the word "Mungarly casa" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
a baker’s shop; evidently a corruption of a Lingua Franca phrase for an eating-house. The well-known “Nix Mangiare” stairs at Malta derive their name from the endless beggars who lie there and shout, “Nix mangiare,” _i.e._, “Nothing to eat,” to excite the compassion of the English who land there,—an expression which exhibits remarkably the mongrel composition of the _Lingua Franca_, MANGIARE being Italian, and _Nix_ (_German_, NICHTS), an evident importation from Trieste, or other Austrian seaport.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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