A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire

by George Edward Dartnell; E. H. Goddard

Mixen, Muxen. A dungheap (A.B.C.S.).—N. & S.W.

Mix-muddle. One who muddles things imbecilely (Village Miners).—N.W.

Miz-maze. Puzzle, perplexity, confusion.—S.W.

Miz-mazed. Thoroughly puzzled, stupefied. Stunned (S.).—S.W.

Mizzy-mazey. Confused. Used of print swimming before the eyes.—S.W.

Moile. Dirt, mud. Mwoile (A.). 'Aal in a mwoile.'—N.W.

Moll*'ern, Molly Heron. The Heron (Great Estate, ch. iv).—N.W.

Mommick, Mommet. A scarecrow. Cf. Mummock.—N.W. (Malmesbury.)

Money-in-both-pockets. Lunaria biennis, L., Honesty, from the seeds showing on both sides of the dissepiment through the transparent pod.

Monkey-musk. The large garden varieties of Mimulus, which resemble the true musk, but are scentless, and therefore merely monkey (i.e. mock, spurious) musk.—N. & S.W.