mud monkey
a person who enjoys playing in muddy conditions
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mud sticks
Unfounded criticism or slander can permanently damage someone's reputation
mud-crusher
A word of contempt, used by the cavalry in reference to the infantry.
mud-lark
A man or woman who, with clothes tucked above the knee, grovels through the mud on the banks of the Thames, when the tide is low, for silver or pewter spoons, old bottles, pieces of iron, coal, or any articles of the least value, deposited by the retiring tide, either from passing ships or the sewers. Occasionally applied to those men who cleanse the sewers, and who wear great boots and sou’-wester hats.
mud-student
A farming pupil. The name given to the students at the Agricultural College, Cirencester.
muddle along
to manage or progress with difficulty or confusion
muddy up
to make something confusing or unclear
mudfog
"The British Association for the Advancement of Science." Term first used by Charles Dickens in Bentley’s Miscellany, about 1836.
muff
The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of your marriage, girl; a health.
muff
A silly or weak-minded person, a duffer; MUFF has been defined to be "a soft thing that holds a lady’s hand without squeezing it."
muff diver
One who performs cunnilingus.
muffin baker
A Quaker (slang term for excrement).
muffin-cap
A cap similar to that worn by a charity-boy.
muffin-face
A white, soft, delicate, or whiskerless face.
muffin-worry
An old lady’s tea party.
Muffins and Crumpets
Muffins is probably pain- moujflet, soft bread. Du Cange describes the pams mofletus as bread of a more delicate nature than ordinary, for the use of prebends, etc., and says it was made fresh every day. Crumpets is a word of ancient but unknown origin. Crumpet is also slang for the head — / caught him one on the crumpet — I gave him a blow on the head.
mufti
The civilian dress of a naval or military officer when off duty.—Anglo-Indian. From an Eastern word signifying a clergyman or priest.
mug
The face.
mug
The mouth, or face.—Old.
mug's game
A futile or unprofitable activity
mug-up
To paint one’s face, or dress specially with a view to impersonation.—Theatrical. To "cram" for an examination.—Army.
mugged by reality
Forced to accept an unpleasant reality
mugging
A thrashing,—synonymous with "slogging," both terms of the "ring," and frequently used by fighting men.
muggle
Marijuana.
muggletonians
The sect or disciples of Lodowick Muggleton.
muggy
Drunk.
muggy
Drunk. Also, as applied to weather, stifling, oppressive.
mukluk telegraph
An informal, unofficial communication network
mull
"to make a MULL of it," to spoil anything, or make a fool of oneself.
mullethead
fool, idiot
mulligrubs
Sick of the mulligrubs with eating chopped hay: low-spirited, having an imaginary sickness.
Mulmutine Laws
The code of Dunvallo Mulmutius, the sixteenth legendary King of the Britons (about 400 B.C.), son of Cloten, King of Cornwall. It is said to have been translated by Gildas from British into Latin, and to have formed the basis of King Alfred's code, which obtained in England till the Conquest. (Holmshed: History of England iii, 1.
Mulready Envelope
An envelope resembling a half-sheet of letter-paper, when folded, having on the front an ornamental design by William Mulready (1786-1863), the artist. When the penny postage envelopes were first introduced (1840), these were the stamped envelopes of the day; they remained in circulation for one year only. They are prized by stamp-collectors.
multee kertever
Very bad.
mum
To silence.
mum
An interjection directing silence. Mum for that; I shall be silent as to that. As mute as Mumchance, who was hanged for saying nothing; a friendly reproach to any one who seems low-spirited and silent.
mum
"to keep MUM," to hold one’s peace. Hence "MUM’S the word,"—a phrase which implies to all hearers that the matter to which it refers must remain secret.
mum glass
The monument erected on Fish-street Hill, London, in memory of the great fire in 1666.
mum's the word
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
mumble a sparrow
A cruel sport practised at wakes and fairs, in the following manner: A cock sparrow whose wings are clipped, is put into the crown of a hat; a man having his arms tied behind him, attempts to bite off the sparrow's head, but is generally obliged to desist, by the many pecks and pinches he receives from the enraged bird.
mumchance
An ancient game like hazard, played with dice: probably so named from the silence observed in playing at it.
mummer
A performer at a travelling theatre.—Ancient. Rustic performers at Christmas in the West of England.
mummy wheat
Wheat said to have been taken from ancient Egyptian tombs, which, when sown, fructifies. No seed, however, will preserve its vitality for centuries, and what is called mummy wheat is a species of corn commonly grown on the southern shores of the Mediterranean.
mump
To beg. In Lincolnshire, Boxing-day is known as MUMPING DAY.
mumper
A beggar.
mumper
A beggar. A collector of holiday tribute.
mumpers
Originally beggars of the genteel kind, but since used for beggars in general.
mumpers hall
An alehouse where beggars are harboured.
mumping day
St. Thomas's Day, December 21st, is so called in some parts of the country, because on this day the poor used to go about begging, or, as it was called, "a-gooding," that is, getting gifts to procure good things for Christmas.
mumps
The miserables. To feel MUMPISH is to be heavy, dull, and stupid.
munch
Food.
mundungus
Bad or rank tobacco: from mondongo, a Spanish word signifying tripes, or the uncleaned entrails of a beast, full of filth.
mundungus
Trashy, coarse tobacco. Sometimes used to represent the half-soddened, half-calcined residuum at the bottom of an all-but-smoked-out pipe, which, when knocked out, is vulgarly called the TOPPER, q.v. Spanish, MONDONGO, black pudding.
munga
Food
mungaree
food
mungarly
Bread, food. MUNG is an old word for mixed food, but MUNGARLY is doubtless derived from the Lingua Franca, MANGIAR, to eat. See the following.
mungarly casa
A baker’s shop; evidently a corruption of a Lingua Franca phrase for an eating-house. The well-known "Nix Mangiare" stairs at Malta derive their name from the endless beggars who lie there and shout, "Nix mangiare," i.e., "Nothing to eat," to excite the compassion of the English who land there,—an expression which exhibits remarkably the mongrel composition of the Lingua Franca, MANGIARE being Italian, and Nix (German, NICHTS), an evident importation from Trieste, or other Austrian seaport.
munging
Or MOUNGING, whining, begging, muttering.—North.
Munich Pact
The Dact signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, and Italy on September 29th, 1938, whereby the Sudeten- land of Czechoslovakia was ceded to Germany. From this unfortunate act of appeasement the phrase has come to mean any dishonourable appeasement. Murderer's Bible, The.
muns
The face, or rather the mouth: from the German word MUND, the mouth. Toute his muns; look at his face.