Map

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html

MAP, sb.1 Sc. [map.] A portrait, likeness. Ayr. Our John has gotten his map done, an' ye'll see it as weel as himsel'... Some think it very like him, Hunter Studies (1870) 21.

MAP, sb.2 Irel. Nhb. Yks. Lan. Lin. I.W. [map, mæp.] A dial. form of ‘mop,’ sb.1 (q.v.) N.I.1, w.Yks.1 w.Yks.3 Lan. Clegg Sketches (1895) 59. Lin. Brooke Tracts Gl. 8. I.W.1 Hence (1) Map-clout, sb. a cloth for mopping floors; (2) Map-nail, sb. a nail for securing the head of a mop; (3) Mappin, vbl. sb. the act of mopping. (1) w.Yks. Dish claats an' map-claats, block up ivvery nook an' corner, Hartley Ditt. (1868) 125; (J.W.) (2) Nhb.1 From four to six inches long, with a broad flat head. (3) Lan. Wait eautside whol th' mappin's getten eaut o' th' gate, Clegg Sketches (1895) 219.

MAP, v., sb.3 and int. Sc. Nhb. Cum. Also in forms mep Cum.4; mop- Nhb.1 [map.] 1. v. To nibble; to move the mouth as though nibbling; to catch hold with the teeth. Cf. moup, v.1 Rnf. Picken Poems (1813) Gl. Lth. The rabbils even... munch an' map, Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 149. Cum.4 Obs. Hence (1) Mappy, (a) sb. a rabbit; (b) int. a rabbit call; (2) Mapsie, sb. a pet sheep; a young hare. (1, a) Abd. We're no like to starve, wi' sawmon i' the hedges, an' mappies i' the trees! MacDonald Sir Gibbie (1879) xxxiii. Fif. The mappie was his favourite pet, Colville Vernacular (1899) 14. Lth. Wi' a mappie an' a puggie, Smith Merry Bridal (1866) 27. Gall. (A.W.), Nhb.1 (b) Sc. (Jam.), Abd. (G.W.) (2) Gall. Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 337, ed. 1876. 2. Phr. to map and mell, to live with a man at board and bed, as a wife with her husband. Rnf. [She] lang'd for some douce decent man, Wi' him to map and mell, Barr Poems (1861) 162. 3. sb. A rabbit. Bnff.1, Cld. (Jam.) 4. int. A rabbit call. Sc. (Jam.), Bnff.1, Abd., Per. (G.W.)

MAP, MAPEMENT, see Mayhap, Mapment.