To mop up. To drink up. To empty a glass or pot.
Moped. Stupid, melancholy for want of society.
MOPSEY. A dowdy, or homely woman.
MOPSQUEEZER. A maid servant, particularly a housemaid.
MOPUSSES. Money.
MORGLAG. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly
carried by watchmen; corruption of more,
great or broad,
and Glave, blade.
Morning drop. The gallows. He
napped the king’s pardon
and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned,
and
was not hanged.
Morris. Come, morris off; dance off, or
get you gone.
allusion to morris, i.e. Morisco,
or Moorish dancing.
Mort. A woman or wench; also a yeoman’s
daughter. To
be taken all-a mort; to be confounded,
surprised, or motionless
through fear.
Moses. To stand Moses: a man is said
to stand Moses
when he has another man’s bastard
child fathered upon
him, and he is obliged by the parish to
maintain it.
Moss. A cant term for lead, because both
are found on the
tops of buildings.
Mossy face. The mother of all saints.
Mot. A girl, or wench. See mort.
Mother, or the mother. A bawd.
Mother abbess:
the same. Mother midnight; a midwife.
Mother in
law’s bit; a small piece, mothers
in law being supposed
not apt to overload the stomachs of their
husband’s children.
Mother of all saints. The Monosyllable.
Mother of all souls. The same. Irish.
Mother of st. Patrick. The same. Irish.
Mother of the maids. A bawd.
MOUCHETS. Small patches worn by ladies:
from the French
word mouches.
MOVEABLES. Rings, watches, or any toys of value.
Mouse. To speak like a mouse in a cheese;
i.e. faintly or
indistinctly.
Mousetrap. The parson’s mousetrap; the state of matrimony.
Mouth. A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked;
one gaping
and staring at every thing he sees.
To make any one
laugh on the wrong, or t’other side
of his mouth; to make
him cry or grieve.
Mouth. A silly fellow. A dupe.
To stand mouth; i.e.
to be duped.
To mow. A Scotch word for the act of copulation.
Mow Heater. A drover: from their
frequent sleeping on
hay mows. Cant.
Mower. A cow.
Muck. Money; also dung.
Muckworm. A miser.
MUCKINDER. A child’s handkerchief tied to the side.
Mud. A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also,
among printers
the same as dung among journeymen taylors.
See
dung.


