M
Maiden, Maid – young girl, specifically a virgin
Maidenhead – virginity (to protect one’s virginity)
Make-peace – a peace maker
Malapert – rude, impudent
Malmsey – a strong sweet wine
Many Thanks, I Thank Thee – thank you
Mark – pay attention
Marry – indeed, literally ‘by Mary’ or ‘by the Virgin Mary’
Mayhap – maybe or could be
Meet – proper, fitting
Meetly – fairly good
Melancholy – depressed
Mercer – dealer in textiles
Mercy, I Cry You Mercy – excuse me
Mere, Merely – absolute, completely
Merry – happy, festive, pleasant, funny
Meschant – wicked, wretched, a wretch, a villain
Methinks – I think
Milky – timid, weak
Minimus – tiny or insignificant creature
Mirth – fun, merriment
Mislike – dislike, aversion
Monger – peddler, dealer
Moonling – simpleton
Mountebank – itinerant quack
Mousehunt – woman chaser, a wolf
Mumblecrust – toothless person, beggar
Mumble-news – tale bearer, gossip
Mystery – secret, craft, skill
N
Narrow-prying – closely watching
Nary – not a single one
Naught, also Nought – nothing
Naughty – wicked, worthless
Nay – no
Neighbored – closely associated
Ne’r – never
New – recently, lately
Nonpariel – a beauty
O
Office – job, responsibility
Oft – often
Onion-eyed – tearful, weepy
Ope – open
Ort – scrap of food
Otherwhere – elsewhere
Out, Out Upon – exclamation of frustration
Outbrag – exceed in virtue
Outbrave – surpass in valor, bravery
Outfacing – bold, swaggering
Outsleep – sleep past a time
Outsport – revel more than another
Owe – own
P
Parnel – priest’s mistress, wanton woman
Partlet – hen, a woman
Past-proportion – beyond measure
Patch – fool, dolt
Pate – head, especially the top
Pathetical – pathetic, moving
Peagoos – simpleton, ninny
Pennyworth – small amount
Perchance, also Belike – maybe, possibly
Perdition – hell, by the fire of hell
Perdy – indeed, for sure
Perforce – by necessity or force
Pernicious – harmful, deceitful
Physic – medicine, cure
Piepowder – itinerant or traveling peddler
Pigeon-livered – meek, gentle
Pillicock – man’s private parts
Pissing-while – a very short time
Pitchy – very dark
Pizzle – penis of an animal, ‘thou bull’s pizzle!’
Plague – curse
Ploughman – farmer
Plumpy – plump
Poesy – poetry, a poem
Popinjay – one who dresses gaudy, flashy, a fop
Prate – babble, chatter
Prating – babbling, talking too much
Pray – please, ‘pray pardon,’ beg
Presently – soon
Princox – saucy, pert boy
Prithee, I Pray Thee, If It Please Thee – please, I ask you
Prove, also Prive – test, show to be true
Privy – toilet, water closet, see also Ajax, to be informed
Punk – prostitute, harlot
Purse – man’s small bag for coins, a person’s finances
Q
Quaffing – drinking alcohol in a chugging fashion
Quick – living, alive
Quicken – make alive, make lively
R
Ragman – devil
Recreant – coward, traitor
Resolve – plan
Rogue – dishonest rascal
Roister – revel wildly
Rude – not eloquent
Rudesby, also Rudesbay – rude, insolent person
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