Dialect ‘M’ 2
Melt inside or stuffing, ‘I’ll knock the melt out of him’
‘fit till melt’, boiling with anger
Mend ‘he’ll mend him’, ‘hell mend him’, undo him of his wrong ways: improve, ‘he’s not mending this time’
Mitch play truant from school
Midlin not too well
Mill strike, ‘I’ll mill ye!’
Mind remind, ‘mind me to do that later’; ‘see, ‘do you mind the way he creeps?’; remember, ‘I mind the time..’
Miscall slander or abuse
Misses escapes, tumbles, ‘there’s not much misses his eye’, ‘I’m always missing my foot’, slipping and tumbling over
Mizzle light rain
Moan ‘Indeed I moan you from my heart’, pity
‘I don’t moan ye with what ye have’, sympathise
Moidered bewildered
Moiley bare, a moiley hill, moiley goat, one without horns
Moral of ‘he’s the moral of his father’, like
Moral spit of, the image of
More although, ‘he needs help the more he said not’
Mortal very, ‘he’s mortal bad’
Moss a turf bog
Mosscheeper titlark
Moul mould, as in turf mould
Mouth ‘a fool mouth’, silly talker: ‘a foul mouth’, swearer; ‘he nivir axed had I a mouth on me!’, I wasn’t invited to eat
Muck dirt
Mug stupid
Muggy close, wet
Mummle mumble
Murderous very, ‘murderous wicked’, ‘up murdering late’, ‘a murdering hard worker’