Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: M-Words
M-Words
by Robert Burns
- Mae, mair, maist, maistly
- More, most, almost, mostly.
- Maggot's-meat
- Food for the worms.
- Mahoun
- Satan.
- Mailen
- A farm.
- Mak'
- To make; makin', making.
- Mally
- Molly, Mary.
- Mang
- Among.
- Manse
- The house of the parish minister is called
the manse.
- Manteele
- A mantle.
- Mark
- Marks. This and several other nouns, which, in English, require an s to form the plural, are, in Scottish, like the words sheep, deer, the same in both numbers.
- Mark, merk
- A Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and fourpence.
- Marled
- Partly coloured.
- Mar's year
- The year 1715. Called Mar's year from the Rebellion of Erskine, Earl of Mar.
- Martial chuck
- The soldier's camp-comrade, female companion.
- Mashlum
- Mixed corn.
- Mask
- To mash, as malt, etc., to infuse.
- Maskin-pat
- Tea-pot.
- Maukin
- A hare.
- Maun, mauna
- Must, must not.
- Maut
- Malt.
- Mavis
- The thrush.
- Maw, mawin'
- To mow; mowing; maun, mowed; maw'd, mowed.
- Mawn
- A small basket without a handle.
- Meere
- A mare.
- Meikle
- Much.
- Melancholious
- Mournful.
- Melder
- Corn or grain of any kind, sent to the mill to be ground.
- Mell
- To be intimate, to meddle; also a mallet for pounding barley in a stone trough.
- Melvie
- To soil with meal.
- Men'
- To mend.
- Mense
- Good manners, decorum.
- Menseless
- Ill-bred, rude, impudent.
- Merle
- The black-bird.
- Messan
- Cur.
- Messin
- A small dog.
- Midden
- A dunghill.
- Midden-hole
- A gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.
- Midd'n-creels
- Dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.
- Milkin-shiel
- A place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.
- Mim
- Prim, affectedly meek.
- Mim-mou'd
- Gentle-mouthed.
- Min'
- To remember; mind, remembrance.
- Minawae
- Minuet.
- Mind't
- Mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.
- Minnie
- Mother, dam.
- Mirk, mirkest
- Dark, darkest.
- Misca'
- To abuse, to call names; misca'd, abused.
- Mischanter
- Accident.
- Mislear'd
- Mischievous, unmannerly.
- Misteuk
- Mistook.
- Mither
- Mother.
- Mixtie-maxtie
- Confusedly mixed, mish-mash.
- Moistify, moistified
- To moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.
- Mons-Meg
- A large piece of ordnance, composed of iron bars welded together and then hooped.
- Mony, or Monie
- Many.
- Mools
- Earth.
- Moop
- To nibble as a sheep.
- Moorlan'
- Of, or belonging to, moors.
- Morn
- The next day, to-morrow.
- Mottie
- Hazy.
- Mou'
- The mouth.
- Moudiwort
- A mole.
- Mousie
- Diminutive of mouse.
- Muckle, or mickle
- Great, big, much.
- Muses-stank
- Muses-rill; a stank -- slow-flowing water.
- Musie
- Diminutive of muse.
- Muslin-kail
- Broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and greens -- thin, poor broth.
- Mutchkin
- An English pint.
- Mysel'
- Myself.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd