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where the quantity given to the miller is called moutre, or muter, or mooter.
- Mulharten; a flesh-worm: a form of meelcartan. See Meelcar.
- Mullaberta; arbitration. (Munster.) Merely the Irish moladh-beirte, same sound and meaning: in which moladh [mulla] is 'appraisement'; and beirtĕ, gen. of beart, 'two persons':—lit. 'appraisement of two.' The word mullaberta has however in recent times drifted to mean a loose unbusinesslike settlement. (Healy.)
- Mummers, 171.
- Murray, Mr. Patrick, schoolmaster of Kilfinane, 153, 154, and under 'Roasters,' below.
- Murrogh O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin, 165.
- Musicianer for musician is much in use all over Ireland. Of English origin, and used by several old English writers, among others by Collier.
- Nab; a knowing old-fashioned little fellow. (Derry.)
- Naboc´lesh; never mind. (North and South.) Irish ná-bac-leis (same sound), 'do not stop to mind it,' or 'pass it over.'
- Nail, paying on the nail, 183.
- Naygur; a form of niggard: a wretched miser:—
- 'I certainly thought my poor heart it would bleed
- To be trudging behind that old naygur.'
- (Old Munster song; 'The Spalpeen's Complaint':
- from 'Old Irish Folk Music and Songs.')
- 'In all my ranging and serenading,
- I met no naygur but humpy Hyde.'
- (See 'Castlehyde' in my 'Old Irish Music and Songs.')
