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Matakari | 18:02 Fri 22nd Sep 2023 | Crosswords
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Must travel in the country for cheap cloth (5)

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Mungo is a cheap cloth .... but...

mun

/mʌn/

verb

DIALECT•BRITISH

variant form of must1.

Variant form of 'must' = MUN + GO = travel .......

well done ellie may- so MUN +Go for travel

Mun go is a British dialect expression for Must go.

Maybe Scottish ?

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Thanks, all!

Am more familiar with Mungo as as a cartoon dog than as type of cloth

As a boy in my native Lancashire I heard old folk using "mun", usually mun for "must" ie, I mun do something.

A memory from school days is that mungoes and shoddies were cheap cloths made from recycled cloth ie, the old cloth was shedded and then re-spun and rewoven into mungoes and shoddies. I vaguely remember that one was basically woollen and the other basically cotton - no man-made fibres in those days..

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