subs. phr. (obsolete).—See quots.
1838. DICKENS in Bentley’s Magazine, IV. 209–27. Full Report of the Second Meeting of the MUDFOG Association for the Advancement of Everything [Title].
1886. C. DICKENS, Junior, in Household Words, 1 May, p. 13. Many critics have derided as a gross exaggeration a very early skit of my father’s which satirised the proceedings of a certain MUDFOG ASSOCIATION, but some recent meetings of the Social Science Association were quite as ridiculous.
