1787. Burns, Tam Samson’s Elegy. Ye maukins, cock your fuds fu’
braw.
3. (Scots’).—The female pudendum: i.e., pussie (q.v.). Also
rouch-mawkin.
1540. Lyndsay, Thrie Estaitis, line 1924. And ye Ladies, that list
to pisch, Lift up your taill plat in ane disch; And gif that your
mawkine cryis quhisch, Stap in ane wusp of strae.
Malkin-trash, subs. (old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Malkin-trash. One in dismal garb.
Malmsey-nose, subs. (old).—See quot. Cf. Grog-blossom.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Malmsey-nose. A red-pimpled snout,
rich in carbuncles and rubies.
Malt, verb. (common).—To drink beer.
1828–45. T. Hood, Poems, i. p. 148 (ed. 1846). She drank nothing
lower than Curaçoa, Maraschino, or pink Noyau, And on principle
never malted.
1835. Marryat, Jacob Faithful, xxii. Well, for my part I malt.
To have the malt above the wheat (water, or meal), verb. phr. (Scots’
colloquial).—To be drunk. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.
1767. Ray, Proverbs [Bohn (1893), 63]. ‘Proverbial Periphrases of
one Drunk’, The malt is above the water.
1816. Scott, Old Mortality, iv. Aweel,—when the malt begins to get
aboon the meal ... then Jenny, they’re like to quarrel.
Maltooling, subs. (thieves’).—See quot. Cf. Molltooler.
1862. H. Mayhew, Lon. Lab. & Lon. Poor, iv. 324. Which she does by
shoplifting, and picking pockets in omnibuses, the latter being
termed maltooling.
Maltout, subs. (old).—See quot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Maltout, a nickname ... used by
soldiers and sailors of other corps, probably a corruption of
matelot ... a sailor.
Malt-worm (-bug or -horse), subs. (old).—A tippler; a lushington
(q.v.).
1551. Still, Gammer Gurton’s Needle [Dodsley, Old Plays, ii. 21].
Then doth she trowle to me the bowle, Even as a mault-worme shold.
1586. Harrison, England, p. 202. It is incredible to say how our
malt-bugs lug at this liquor.
1591. Nashe, Prognostication [Grosart, ii. 147]. If violent death
take not away such consuming mault worms.
1593. Shakspeare, Comedy of Errors, iii. 1. 32. Malt-horse....
Coxcomb, idiot!
1593. Life & Death of Jack Straw [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), v.
403]. You shall purchase the prayers of all the alewives in town,
for saving a malt-worm and a customer.
1598. Shakspeare, 1 Hen. IV, ii. 1. None of these mad, mustachio,
purple-hued malt-worms.
1889. Austin Dobson, Poems on Several Occasions, II. 209. ‘The
malt-worm’s Madrigal.’ [Title].
Mammet, subs. (old).—A puling girl.
1595. Shakspeare, Romeo & Juliet, iii. 5. And then to have a
wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortunes tender, To
answer I’ll not wed—I cannot love.
1610. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 5. ’Slight! you are a mammet! O I could
touse you now.
Mammy, subs. (colloquial).—1. Mother: an endearment.
1560. Nice Wanton [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 180]. Cards,
dice, kiss, clip, and so forth; All this our mammy would take in
good worth.
d. 1796. Burns, There Was a Lass. An’ aye she wrought her mammie’s
wark, An’ aye she sang sae merrilie.