Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent / Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties

by Alexander Craig Gibson

Stagg. Auld Lang Syne.

Maizlin, C, a simpleton.

“Banton lads grew parfet guffs,

An’ Thursby lasses maizlins.”

Mark Lonsdale. The Upshot.

Mak, C, sort, kind.

“It taks o’ maks to mak ivery mak.”

Rev. T. Clarke. Johnny Shippard.

Māp’ment, C, imbecility; compounded of mope and ment, like manage-ment, etc.

“He toked for iver sa lang, but he toked a deal o’ maapment.”—Ibid.