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Dialect ‘M’ 1
Machine any vehicle, or trap etc. ‘Nice machine you’ve got there’
Mad angry
Made up pleased, ‘she was made up by the present’
Maggoty-headed foolish, difficult, obstinate
(Fit) Make ‘she’s a fit make for him’, suitable companion
Make a move move, try a stunt, ‘if you make a move, I’ll brain you’
Make halfpenny
Make forth pass on, ‘we must make forth to Wee Hughie’s’
Makings materials, ‘the makings of a man’, ‘.. of a coat’
Make little disparage, ‘He made little of it but in the end, he was the buyer’
Male food, (meal) ‘Is he not in for his male yit?’
Mallyvogin scolding
Maluder thresh, beat, ‘Give him a good maludering’
Manifest plain, ‘a manifest lie’
March ditch boundary ditch
Mark scratch, impress, ‘If my hands make an errand till yer face, they’ll mark it well for you’, ‘the wee mare can hardly mark the ground, she’s that lame’
Marksman a person who signs his name by a mark
Marley speckled, e.g. of hen; also of man’s greying hair
Mate meat, meal, ‘he’s quare and good at his mate’
Measured fell, ‘he measured his length on the road’
Melder a large mixed dish of food
Mell a wooden mallet for breaking lumps of earth
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