monish

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Me lack-a de monish pour de feene—very feene—French knack, de feene gold button, de brave bugla lace, a de feene gold ring-a.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

And vere's all de monish ve thought good as made In other thmall vays of rethpectable trade, Such as lodgin' and board for de tars to provide, And p'raps a few thlight 'commodations bethide?

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Dis voman called at my shtore yesterday, and begged me for monish.

From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair

"Vill you pay me my monish, Mr Newland, or vill you go to prison?"

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

"It vas in de same sthyle dat you vent on dis morning, ven you vas begging me, and den you afterwards shtole my monish."

From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair