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monkerie noun plural lodgings: deek if ye can get a stallin in a flash monkerie. [See if you a get a staying in a posh lodging house.] 20. etymology: perhaps a development of English monkery ‘A body or community of monks; a monastery.’; or, more plausibly, a development of Romany monkri ‘the countryside’; only attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies note:

Grose and Egan (1823) attest ‘monkery a name given by family people [‘thieves and others...] to the country parts of England’