Dialect

Meaning

Cornish 

Comment

Source

Maa

Maw

Maake Hum (Um)

Shut. To accomplish. To do

Maazin

Knocked maazin. Foolish

Mabyers. Mabier.

Young hens. Pullets. Bantams

Mad-ley-moed.

To mix up. All confused

Maggot

A magpie

Maad. Maid

Girl

Maister. Maaster.

Master. Boss

Malt. Malting. Malty

To feed. "Malting the pigs'. Fleshy

Make-out.

To pretend. To put out

Make-to

To shut. To close.

Make-wise

To pretend. To make-believe

Malkin.

Mop for cleaning long ovens

Mallygolder

A large jellyfish

Man-engine.

Machine by which miners descend deep shafts

Mane. Manen

Mean. Meaning

Manshons. Manshuns

Small loaves baked without tins

Marchant.

Merchant

Marchandise.

Merchandise

Margy-soup

Dog-fish soup with parsley etc

Marinade. Marinate

Fish (usually pilchards) baked in vinger and seasoned

Marry-bones

Marrow-bones. The knees

Marsel. Morsel. mossel.

A slice of bread and butter

Marvels.

Marbles

Mashes

A large quantity. A great deal

Maring

Sweat

Marning.

Morning (greeting)

Marrow.

Tomorrow

Mart.

Goose fat

Mate.

Meat

Mate

An instrument used in caulking boat

Maun. Maund.

A hamper. A large basket

Maunge.

Munch. Chew noisily

Mauger

Meagre. Scanty

Mawther.

Mother

Maxims.

Whims

May

Blossom of the hawthorn

May-bird.

The whimbrel

Maygam. May-game.

Fun. Frolic. 'I won't be made a may-game by them'

Mazed.

Mad. Annoyed. In a temper

Mazed Monday

The Monday after a feast

Mazed-getty-puttick.

Wild harum-scarum fellow. Silly

Mazlin. Mazzlin.

Stupid. 'Scat un mazzlin'

Mazlin pan

Utensil for stewing fruit. Maxlins(small plums)

Mazzards

Black Cherries

Meader.

A mower - also a mouse

Mean-ollas

A stone hearth in a boat

Meer

A measure. To measuure

Meeting

Giving pigs their meal at feeding time

Meat-earth

Surface soil

Meggyhowler, Meggahowler

A large night moth

Me'ansum.

Term of affection or greeting

Me Cabbun

My captain

Med.

Might

Meddick

Emetic

Meesy-y-mazy

Muddled. Confused. Puzzled

Mell.

Meddle

Melt.

Soft roe of fish

Merl. Murl

Link of a chain

MERSE

Guillemot

20

Sennen

2010 (20)

Merthery.

Mildew on food

Merry-dancers.

The northern lights. Aurora Borealis

Merrymaiden

A mermaid

Merryman.

Clown. Jester

Metheglin

A drink made of honey (also mead)

Mews

Moss

Middling.

Fairly well

Midgan.

A mite

Midjans and jouds

Shreds and tatters

Midgety-morrows

Fidgets

Minch. Minchy

To be absent from school. Play treant

Minetime

Meantime

Mingle-com-por

Confusion. Discord. Muddle

Milchy

Flour from sprouted corn

Milk-cup.

A cream jug of a tea-set

Milky dASHEL

a yellow flowered thistle with no prickles that is collected by children for pet rabbits

  2

  Flora

2010 (2)

Milyer

Hinge of door or gate which works with pin in stone

Mill bed.

A platform in a mill

Minty or mingy

Mean. Miserly

Miserable.

Miserly. Unhappy

Missment

Error. Mistake

Mismaze

Perplexed

Mitting(s)

Meeting. Usually prayer 'mittings' or 'mittins'

Miracle-play.

A farce. A drama

Miss-the-hand.

To err. To make a mistake. To blunder.

Moast.

nearly. Almost

Mock or mott

A large block of wood

Moket.

A bid of an apron

Moile.

A mule

Molly-candle (cuddle)

An effeminate man. Patronise

Monger

Horse-collar made of twisted straw

Moole.

To knead bread

Moonshine.

Smuggled brandy

Moors

Marshy wasteland

Moorstone.

Granite

Mooty.

Moult. To mope

Mops-and-brooms.

Disorder. Sixes-and-sevens.Muddled with drink.

Mopse. Mops.

A bridle with blinkers

Moppy-heedy (needy)

Hide and seek

Moral.

Likeness

More. Maur.

A root

More-and -mold

Root and branch

Mort. Mart.

Lard

Morey

Extensive. Long- Lasting

Morrish.

Inviting. Wanting more

Morrops.

Sheep runs near the sea

Mossel.

Slice of bread and butter

Mot. Mott. Mote

Stump of tree

Mother. mauther

A fugus which forms in fluids such as vinger

Mother-margets (margeys)

The bluebottle fly

Mouche

To play an illegal shot (marbles)

17

Game

Mr J Tregear, 55 year old tailor from Redruth

1984

Mowhay. mowey.

Rickyard where corn is stackked

Moyle.

Mule

Muck-out.

Clean out (as in cowshed)

Muck

Pounded apples

Muggard

The mugwort

Muggets

Entrails

Muggety-pie.

A pie of sheep guts, parsley, cream, pepper and salt

Mulligrubs

The colic

Mulla.

Untidy. Unkempt

Mully

The bull-head

Mumper

A tamp. Beggar

Mun.

Must. Also rotten fish (used as manurr)

Munge.

To chew. Munch

Mungern.

A straw horse-collar

Murflies.

Freckles. Spots on the chin.

Mur

Seafowls (puffin)

Murley

Almost

Murphy

A potato

Muryans

Ants

Music-man. Musicianer

Musician

Mus. Musn'

Must. Must not

Mutting.

Sulk(ing)

Mutton.

Dressed up as lamb. Cutting remark about a women trying to disguise her age

Myselve.

Myself