muggent

[muggent

Gesner's (1555) German rendering (= mod.G. mückenente, f. mücke fly + ente duck) of mod.L. anas muscaria, a species of wild duck described by Aldrovandus. Quoted in 1678 in Ray Willughby's Ornith. iii. iii. 375, and mistaken by some later writers for an Eng. word. Hence in Webster 1828–32, and in later Dicts.

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