mouchets
Small patches worn by ladies: from the French word mouches.
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mouldy
Grey-headed. Servants wearing hair-powder are usually termed MOULDY-PATES by street boys.
mouldy-grubs
Travelling showmen, mountebanks who perform in the open air without tent or covering. Doing this is called MOULDY-GRUBBING.
moundsman
A pitcher.
mount
A saddle-horse. According to quality, "a good MOUNT," or "a bad MOUNT."
Mount Celion
After 230 years they awoke, but soon died, and their bodies were taken to Marseilles in a large stone coffin, still shown in
mountain dew
Scotch whisky; formerly that from illicit stills hidden away in the mountains.
mountain party emerged
They disappeared with the coming of the Directory in 1799. Club-bearer, The. In Greek mythology Penphetes, the robber of Argolis, is so called because he murdered his victims with an iron club.
mountain-dew
Whisky, advertised as from the Highlands.
mountain-pecker
A sheep’s head. See JEMMY.
mounter
A false swearer. Derived from the borrowed clothes men used to MOUNT, or dress in, when going to swear for a consideration.
mourning
"a full suit of MOURNING," two black eyes; HALF-MOURNING, one black eye.
mouse
To speak like a mouse in a cheese; i.e. faintly or indistinctly.
mouse
A black eye. By a façon de parler, any one with "a MOUSE" is supposed to have been to Blackwall.
mousetrap
The parson's mousetrap; the state of matrimony.
mouth
A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one laugh on the wrong, or t'other side of his mouth; to make him cry or grieve.
mouth breather
Someone considered foolish or stupid
mouth job
Oral sex.
mouth music
Oral sex.
mouth of a sailor
someone who uses a lot of profanity
mouth the words
to repeat words without meaning or feeling
mouth-almighty
A noisy, talkative person.
mouthful of marbles
Unable to speak clearly due to a crowded mouth
mouthpiece
A lawyer, or counsel. Thieves and their associates always speak of a counsel as a MOUTHPIECE.
move
A "dodge," or cunning trick; "up to a MOVE or two," acquainted with tricks. Probably derived from the game of chess.
move down
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see move, down.
move furniture
To reorganize or rearrange things, often in a drastic manner.
move house
To change one's residence
move on
to stop focusing on something and continue with life
move on to something
start doing something new
move one's body
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
move out
to leave a place, especially a home
move someone to tears
to cause someone to cry
move the needle
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
move the yardsticks
to change the standards or criteria
move through the gears
To progress or advance smoothly through a series of stages or levels
move up in the world
Improve one's social or economic status
moveables
Rings, watches, or any toys of value.
movers and shakers
Influential people who drive change and progress
movie jail
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
mow heater
A drover: from their frequent sleeping on hay mows. CANT.
mozzarella
Soft Italian or Italian-style cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.
mrs. grundy
The representative of the censorious world, "What will MRS. GRUNDY say?" Originally a character in the comedy of Speed the Plough.
mrs. harris
And ~Mrs. Gamp~, nicknames of the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers, while united under the proprietorship of Mr. Baldwin. MRS. GAMP, a monthly nurse, was a character in Charles Dickens’s popular novel of Martin Chuzzlewit, who continually quoted an imaginary MRS.
much ado about nothing
A big reaction or fuss over something insignificant
Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare's comedy, named from a proverbial saying of the time, and with only the slightest relevance to the plot, was probably written in 1599, and was published in 1600.
much better
significantly improved
much bran and little meal
More show than substance
Much is expected where much is given. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1095)
Those who receive a lot are expected to give a lot in return
much less
even less likely or true
much of a muchness
Very similar or equivalent in character or quality
muck
To beat, or excel. "It’s no use, his luck’s dead in; he’d MUCK a thousand;" "he MUCKED me clean out," &c. To RUN A MUCK, or GO A MUCKER, to rush headlong into certain ruin. From a certain religious frenzy, or intoxication caused by bhang, which is common among the Malays, and which now and again causes an enthusiast, kreese in hand, to dash into a crowd and devote every one he meets to death until he is himself killed, or falls from exhaustion.—Malay, AMOK, slaughter.
muck-out
To clean out; often applied to one utterly ruining an adversary in gambling.
muck-snipe
One who has been "MUCKED OUT," or beggared, at gambling. See MUCK.
muckender
Or MUCKENGER, a pocket-handkerchief.—Old. Cf. SNOTTINGER. The original name of the "Neckinger" in Bermondsey was "the Devil’s Neck-handkerchief." There is still a Neckinger Road and Messrs. Bevington and Sons’ tannery in Bermondsey bears the name of the Neckinger Mills.
mucker
TO GO A, to go to grief, to ruin one’s prospects.—Oxford Univ.
muckinder
A child's handkerchief tied to the side.
mud
A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG.
mud fence
a rustic or countrified person
mud lark
A fellow who goes about by the water side picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Also a duck.