MEMO—Ah tell’t ye afooar aboot t’ woman ’at wanted a pen’oth o’ pussy booels—that’s memo talkin’, and ther’s memo i’ eaten, an’ walken. It’s a complaint amang young fooak, but they git ower it, an’ happen they’re neea warse for ’t.
MERE—An auld word fer “mark”; land-mark an’ seea on.
MEW—Mewen hay’s yan o’ t’ warmest jobs ’at a lad can be put tull, but o’ t’ lads—an’ lasses fer that matter—’at Ah ken like ’t.
MEAT-HIAL—In gurt far-larn’d biuks yan reads aboot men an’ lasses vowing ta yan anudder ’at they’re heart-whole. Noo this means stomach-whole, an’ Ah’s gaan ta put it in, even if ye o’ laff at it. Ah’s i’ gay good fettle thenk ye, er ye o’ meat-hial at your hoose?
MEBBE—It may be; perhaps; if it should so happen. Mebbe ye can len’ me a shillin’ er tweea. It may mebbe rain, an’ than what? Mebbe if he was telt aboot it he wad see it in anudder leet. Ther’s a lot a ways o’ usin a lal handy word like mebbe.
MENSE—Manners. They’d a siaved biath ther meat an’ ther mense if they’d ass’d us ta hev a cup wi’ them.
MENSE—Decent in appearance. Wesh thisel an’ mak thisel a mack o’ mense.
MENSE—In good condition. Hoo er ye? A mack o’ mense.
MERRY-NEET—Oot o’ date varra nar—an’ a good job, fer if they were merry neets they war varra oft sooary moornens efter.
MENNEM—A minnow, an’ caht they swirt aboot.