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maffle   -    to spend recklessly 

maggoty-patenick      -      name for a madman, like Maggoty                                           Johnson 

magowfin       -       a grimace 

mail, maily     -      mould in bread or cheese, mouldy

mammified    -      spoiled children 

*"Many a time an'oft"      -     often

mare    -      a mere, lake (mere is an Anglo Saxon word) 

mare's teels      -       long light clouds, which indicate                                            approaching rain

market-peeart    -       slightly intoxicated on returning from                                      market 

marrow       -       a mate, a fellow, one of a pair 

maukin     -       a ragged or slovenly-dressed female. "Whey,                           Polly, yo looken a regular maukin, that yo                               dun, wi' yur fithers an' yur fol-the -rol; if I was                         a young wench like yo, I should be ashamed                           o'folks seyin' me go alung the road sich a                               trallock" 

maul-hauly    -      heavy, troublesome and tedious

maunch    -      to munch, to chew 

maunder     -       to let one's mind wander 

mawks     -      mess

mawyed    -      a blockhead, literally mallet-head

mawzy    -     bewildered, out of sorts 

Maxfield     -       Macclesfield

Maygrims    -     antics, tricks 

*mayhappen   -      perhaps

mazed      -      amazed, stupefied 

meal's-meat      -      food enough for one meal 

meath    -     mead, a drink made from honey 

meeanins      -      intentions

meedish     -     maid-like (1)of a man - effeminate (2) of a                                 woman - prudish 

mee-maw    -        to wheedle 

Meg Harry       -     a tomboy

mellot      -      a short tailed field mouse 

merry     -     the wild cherry 

merryman    -      a circus clown 

merrymeal    -    feasting in celebration of the birth of a                                    child

mester    -       to domineer "Yo'll no mester o'er me any                               mooer" 

mester-cai       -      the master cow, the leader of the herd 

mettly   -     quick tempered 

mexen, mixen     -     a dungheap (Anglo Saxon meox =                                           dung)

mezzacky, mizzicky     -     boggy 

mezzil, mezziled     -     a spot, a pimple, marked with spots                                       or pimples 

Michaelriggs     -     Gale force wind around the time of the                                   Autumn Equinox

mickles   -     big, enormous, fearsome. 

middle-leg-deep   -      knee-deep 

middlins    -    mediocrities, average persons or animals 

Miles-Endy-Weesto    -      an indefinitely great distance 

mitey    -      like a mite, tiny

mittins     -     mittens, usually made of leather 

mizzick     -     a bog

mizzle     -     drizzle

*modge, mog   -    to go (away)

moggins   -      wooden clogs

mollockin'     -   untidy, messing 

Molly-cot     -     a man who busies himself with household                              affairs 

mommock    -    to reduce to "mommocks", fragments or                                 scraps 

moog     -     a mug

moondark    -    a nest-egg secretly saved by a wife

*moppet    -       a darling, a term of endearment 

moss      -      a tract of boggy land 

motty    -      word 

Mouldy Warp      -      mole - from mould (earth) warp (                                             cast)

mouzle    -      make untidy

mowthle    -      a mouthful 

mozy   -      juiceless, tough . Said of fruit and veg 

mucker    -     confusion

mudgehole    -        muddy hole in a field with bad drainage

mug    -     face 

muggen    -     made of earthenware 

muggly     -    of weather - close, damp, and unpleasant

mulligrubs    -     stomach ache

mullock    -       any kind of refuse 

*mun       -       must (mun implies that someone must do                                something physical, whereas must implies                            something moral e.g. "yo'must be a foo"