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Maatho – Martha (SB)

Mack – make, sort, breed

Maddle – to confuse, to distract: "hoos quite maddlt."

Maddlt – confused (SB)

Madlin – confusing, distracting; also a flighty, extravagant person. "Whot a madlin hoo is:" "Really hoos quite a madlin."  Mad-cap, a female of the same description. SB)

Maiden – clothes-horse (a folding wooden clothes rack)

Makker – a manufacturer of piece goods; a maker of a thing (SB)

Malkin – grimalkin

Mak, maks, mays, meck – make, makes ‘True love con meck a Paradise’

Mak, mack – sort, make ‘He’s tried three different maks o’ trades’

Mall, Mary – Mally or Moll, the same.

Mam – mother (SB)

Mander – manner, sort: "Whot mander of a thing?" (SB)

Manchit – a small loaf of white bread (SB)

Manchit-hoe – a place in Castleton, nr. Rochdale (SB)

Mank – lark, play tricks

Mant – moaned: "Sadly mant hur;" also meant, intended. (SB)

Mannert – mannered: "Very feaw mannert." (SB)

Mar – to pet, spoil

Marr’d – spoiled

Marrdn – they spoiled (SB)

Mare or Mere – a lake of water (SB)

Margit – Margaret (SB)

Marland – near Rochdale; Marlan-mere, at the same place (SB)

Marlock – a prank, a playful trick (SB)

Marlocks – frolics, mischief, merriment, playfulness

‘It’s sin some marlocks in its time’

Marlockin – gambolling, playing (SB)

Marrin – spoiling (SB)

Marrow – equal, similar ‘Hoo’ll never meet thy marrow’

Marrow – a match, a mate, an equal: "Conto marrow that?" (SB)

Marry – an interjection

Marry-kem-eawt – a scornful interjection

Marry, Marry-kemeawt – common interjections: "Not I, marry!" not I indeed! "Kem eawt," come out; be off. (SB)     

Mary-Jos – Mary at Joshua's

Mash – to mix, to blend provender; also a mixture: "A warm mash," "A cowd mash:" also to smash, to destroy. (SB)

Masht – destroyed, smashed: "he masht it o' i'pieces." (SB)

Maskins, Mackins – petty oaths (SB)

Mate, meit, meyt – meat (or food) ‘Quick at meyt, quick at wark’

Mattert – signified: "It didno matter," it did not signify; it was not of consequence (SB)

Mattered – suppurated (SB)

Maul – to pull, to disarrange (SB)

Maulin – spoiling; Mault – spoiled (SB)

Maunder – to wander stupidly

Maunter or Maunder – to wander, to mope about without object (SB)

Maunderin – moping about (SB)

Maundert – moped (SB)

Mawkin – a dunce, a listless person (SB)

Mawkinly – duncely, mawkish (SB)

Mawp – a bullfinch (SB)

Mawt – malt (SB)

Mawtter – mortar (SB)

May – make: "Wilto may this frock?" (SB)

Maydin – a place in Hopwood (SB)

Madyn – Celtic, a fox (SB)

Maerth, Maertho – Anglo-Saxon, greatness, honour (SB)

Maygut – a maggot (SB)

Mayno – may not (SB)

May-yo – may you (SB)

Mayto – may thou (SB)

Mayto-no – mayest thou not (SB)

Maydn – did make (SB)

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Measter – master (SB)

Meastert – mastered (SB)

Measterin – mastering (SB)

Meastertn – they mastered (SB)

Meawghn – they eat greedily; Meawghnt, they did eat greedily (SB)

Meawl – to mould (SB)

Meawlder – to moulder (SB)

Meawlderin – mouldering (SB)

Meawldy – mouldy (SB)

Meawldert – mouldered (SB)

Meawldern – they moulder (SB)

Meawnge – to munge, to munch, to eat greedily (SB)

Meawnt – to mount (SB)

Meawntebank – a mountebank (SB)

Meawntin – mounting (SB)

Meawnted – mounted (SB)

Meawntun – mountain (SB)

Meawse – mouse

Meawser – a mouser (SB)

Meawse-neest – a mouse's nest (SB)

Meawse-neezes – mouse nests, knavish tricks

Meawt – to moult, to cast feathers; pl. meawtn (SB)

Meawth – a mouth (SB)

Meawzik, or Mewzik, music (SB)

Meawzin – mousing (SB)

Meawth – mouth ‘God ne’er sends meawths, but He sends meyt’

Meazy – dizzy; Meazy-sow – giddy, or empty headed (SB)

Med – made ‘Aw med mi mind up then an’ theer’

Meeny – a family; also many (SB)

Meet – might, power, strength; also exact, just now, as "It's comn meet neaw." (SB)

Meet-neaw – this very minute

Meety – mighty; Awmeety, Almighty (SB)

Meety, meet-ty – mighty

Meg – a halfpenny

Meh – my

Meitherin’, meiderin’ – bothering

Mel – honey

Melch – moist ‘A melch morning’

Menno – may not (SB)

Met, mit, moot, mut – might ‘The ducks did pray ‘at they mut stay’

Met – might (SB)

Met ha – might have (SB)

Metn-ha – they might have (SB)

Meterley – moderately

Metn – they met (SB)

Metto – mightest thou? (SB)

Mettono – mightest thou not? (SB)

Mew – the cry of a cat (SB)

Mexn – to cleanse Mezzeled – a face painted red and purple by brewery ale (SB)

Mezur – to measure; also a measure (SB)

Mezurtn – they measured (SB)

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Mi – my ‘Aw wer sure mi advice wer woth givin’

Mich, mitch – much ‘I think I could buy this job off,

            Witheawt mitch sheme, and little scoff’

Mickle – size, bulk, great: "Whot a mickle," how great he is. "Whot mickle ov a mon is he?" "He's th' mickle o' thee."

Middin – a dung heap (SB)

Middin-spuce – a dung hole (SB)

Middletn – Middleton (SB)

Midge – a gnat (SB)

Miln-row – the place of Tim-Bobbin's residence, near Rochdale (SB)

Mimp – precise, to be affected (SB)

Mimpin – apeing, affecting (SB)

Mindstomeh? – Mindest thou me? Heedest thou me? (SB)

Misel’ missel – myself (SB)

Mish-mash – a hodge-podge (SB)

Miss Nancy – an affected young woman

Mistal – a cow house; a shippon (SB)

Mistaen or Mistan – mistaken (SB)

Mitch – much

Mitch-go-deet’o – much good may it do you!

Mittins – gloves without fingers: also strong hedging gloves (SB)

Mizzzles – rains a little

Mizzle – to decamp

Mizzlin – slightly raining (SB)

Mizzlt – rained small rain (SB)

Mizzly – given to rain (SB)

Mizzy – a soft boggy place, a quagmire

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Mo – me (pronounced short) ‘Thi’n th’ biggest meawths i’ yon country at ever I seed

clapt under a lip! Aw hove one on ‘em his yure up, to see if his meawth went

o’r reawnd; but he knockt mo into th’ slutch’

Moance – an untidy careless person, an unfortunate happening

‘Theau’s made a moance o’ that’

Moangy – going about sleepily and shiftless

Moar, moor – more ‘Moore thoughts nor we con tell’

Mob-cap – a woman's close cap (SB)

Moedy-warp or Mowdy-warp – a mole (SB)

Moekin – moping about also a dull person (SB)

Mog – to travel, to depart: "When arto noggin?" "Tomorn." (SB)

Moider or Moyder – to puzzle, to confuse: also a coin (SB)

Moll or Mall – Mary (SB)

Mollart – a mop to clean ovens with.

Mollycot – an effeminate womanish man (SB)

Mon— man ‘He’re heighest mon i’ th’ nation’

Mon, mun – must

Monnud – must not ‘Her feyther swears an’ carries on –

            Aw monnud hev his lass!

Mony, monny – many ‘Hoo hasn’t mony scholars yet’

Moo – to put hay in the barn; Mooin, putting hay in the barn (SB)

Mood – stowed full (SB)

Mood or Mowd – earth, fine soil, mould (SB)

Mood – a mould of a casting, or of a brick Moodeawt, filled to an excess (SB)

Moodywarp-hole – the burrow of a mole (SB)

Moof, or Mough – a mow of hay (SB)

Mooed out – full, a crowded room

Moon-doggs – night hounds, dogs that ‘bay the moon’

Moor – more, a greater quantity

Moor – a great waste of land, a desert tract, a hill, a common; a heath (SB)

Moorpeep – the twite

Moot – Might; Mootha, might have; Metha, the same (SB)

Mootn and Metn – pl. of might (SB)

Mooter – toll at a mill (SB)

Moother – mother (SB)

Mope – to be dull, drowsy, silent; Mopein, being silent and fatuitous (SB)

Mopsy – a dingy slattern (SB)

Morn, to morn – tomorrow

Mor’n’d – must not ‘Th’ wife’s readin th’ papper, aw mor’n’d speyk’

Morris or Morrice – from Moresco, a dance; also a family name (SB)

Mote – might ‘So mote it be’

Mottey – an aggregate of small deposits of money.  Thus 'tis not an uncommon thing for some dozen, or twenty women, to agree to deposit each a certain small sum weekly, say from threepence to sixpence, commencing at Christmas, and ending at the annual wakes in August or then about.  When the time has expired, the money is divided, and expended, generally either in new clothes for the coming winter, or in a pleasure trip to Liverpool, or other place offering sea air, convenience, and novelty. (SB)

Mowffin – a muffin (SB)

Mowdiwarp – the mole

Mowdy-warp or Moedywarp – a mole (SB)

Moyder – or Moider, to confuse, to bother (SB)

Moydert – nonplussed, worried; bothered (SB)

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Much if – a big thing ‘It’ll be much if he poos through

Muckot – a term of derision; also a tub or other vessel, in which dung is carried to hilly places (SB)

Mullock – a dirty, slovenly person

Mullock – dirt, rubbish (SB)

Mullycrushed – hopelessly ruined, beyond repair

Mump – to strike ‘Aw mumped him’; to thump, to beat: "He mumpt him seawndly." (SB)

Mumps – the sullens, to sulk; also the name of a place at Oldham (SB)

Mun – must ‘We mun live an’ larn, an’ then dee an’ forget o’

Munni – must I? (SB)

Muno – must not  – (SB)

Munha – must have (SB)

Munt – must ‘He munt ha’’

Muntono or Munttono? – must thou not? (SB)

Munto – must thou? (SB)

Murth – abundance, a large quantity (SB)

Muse or Mews – a gap in a hedge where hares or rabbits pass (SB)

Mush – to crush, to mash, to mix up (SB)

Mut – might

Muyce or Moyce – mice (SB)

Muz or Muss – a nurse's term for mouth "Oppn it muss." (SB)

Muzzy – sleep, dull, heavy.

Muzzy – sleepy or drunk; dull, heavy (SB)

Mwost – most (SB)

Mychin or Michin – pining, out of humour (SB)

Mydered – worried, upset, ill at ease

Myen – mean, intend (SB)

Myenin – meaning, intention; Myens, means (SB)

M’yen – mean, the ‘yen’ pron. together

Myenn – we mean (SB)

Myentn – we meant (SB)

Myensto? – meanest thou? (SB)

Myenstono – meanest thou not (SB)

Myen-hood, Mean-wood – near Rochdale (SB)

Mysel’ or missel’ – myself

Mysty or Moisty – misty (SB)

Mythony, Myt-hony – name of a place near Todmorden (SB)

Mythomroyd, Myt-holmroyd, Meet-holm-road – a place near the above (SB)

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