Brewer's: Mamamouchi

A mock honour. Better be a country gentleman in England than a foreign Mamamouchi. The honour is conferred on M. Jourdain. (Molière: Bourgeois Gentilhomme.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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