Meanings
alternative minavilins · alternative malhavelins · alternative manablins · alternative manarolins · alternative manavalins · alternative manavilins · alternative manavlins · alternative menavelings
- pluralplural onlynauticalOdds and ends, leftovers, or scraps of food.
He efficiently loaded our bicycles and manavelins onto a waiting Volkswagen bus.
2011, V. Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 1832 more examples
A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and 'menavelings' from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.
1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories, page 34For many of the maize farms where, by reason of the “menavelings” from the grain crop, it is possible to get good supplies of pig grain at little cost, such a system would be admirable.
1901, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, page 512
Origin
Uncertain, but probably from manarvel (“to steal food or supplies from a ship's store”) + -ing + -s. Possibly related to minnow (“a relatively small and insignificant person or organization”).
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