subs. (old).—1. The mouth. See quot. 1665. Also MUND.
1665. R. HEAD, The English Rogue, Pt. I. ch. v. p. 50 (1874). MUNNS, The Face.
1724. E. COLES, English Dictionary, s.v.
1760. FOOTE, The Minor, i. Why, you jade, you look as rosy this morning, I must have a smack at your MUNS.
1789. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, ‘The Bunter’s Christening.’
| The first thing that was done, sir, | |
| Was handling round the kid, | |
| That all might smack his MUNS, sir. |
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 16.
| While Sandy’s long arms … | |
| Kept paddling about the poor Porpus’s MUNS, | |
| Till they made him as hot and as cross as Lent buns! |
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. MUNS—the mouth….
| ‘One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, | |
| If you have no daughters give them to your sons: | |
| If you have no sons, stuff them in your own MUNS.’ |
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. MUND. Mouth. Ibid., MUNS. The face.
2. In sing. (obsolete).—A MOHAWK (q.v.).
