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From scandalum magnatum.
scanmag (uncountable)
- (slang, obsolete) Slander; gossip.
1876, Belgravia, volume 28, page 103:That liberal lady laughed at all the scanmag; not that she was averse from listening to it, she rather liked to hear it than otherwise.