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MAELID :  noun  "apple nymph" (Davenport). Compare ARTEMID, DRYAD, MALIC, NAIAD, OREAD

. . . girls walking with poise of maelids. . . .

--Davenport, "The Dawn in Erewhon," Tatlin!, p. 236.

MALIC :  adj  having to do with apples. See GLANDES. Compare MAELID

MAMMETS :  noun  female breasts. Compare UNCHIES

Hotspur:

I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
to play with mammets and to tilt with lips:

--Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, II, iii, 93-95.

Therefore King Arthur gave to her his arm, onto which she put one hand and then the next, and finally her bosom. And the King was aroused once more, for he had not played at mammets since being a baby, and he had no memory of that time.

--Berger, Arthur Rex, p. 51.

. . . there was a fig tree overshadowing Romulus and Remus, where they sucked on the mother wolf's mammets.

--Nye, Falstaff, p. 6.

MARASMIC :  adj  withering, wasting away. Compare ANORECTIC, CACHECTIC, DYSCRASE, INANITION, MARCESCENCE, TABESCENT

. . . watch out for Northangerland's Cornish catamite, Iago Ink, the merest marasmic atomy of a mortal, a shrimp, a grub, a monad, less than nothing is . . . .

--Nye, "The Story of Sdeath and Northangerland,"
Tales I Told My Mother, p. 31.

MARCESCENCE :  noun  s drooping, a withering without falling off. MARCESCENT,  adj. Compare ANORECTIC, CACHECTIC, DYSCRASE, INANITION, MARASMIC, TABESCENT

. . . a whiff of fresh air, redolent with the marcescence of cones and pines. . . .

--Aczel, Illuminations, p. 238.

. . . granting that Mon Cul is a remarkable creature, that he is the elder statesman among monkeys, that his marcescent eyelids have opened upon sights and splendors about which the most romantic among us only dream. . . .

--Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 59-60.

MEACOCK :  noun  a cowardly, effeminate person. Compare DRUGGEL, FERBLET, NESH

College presidents loved meacocks. So everyone tried to please President Greatracks in every way he could.

--Theroux, "Darconville's Cat," Tatlin!, p. 191.

MERKIN :  noun  "A sort of genital toupé, a plume for the pussy worn by what Mencken almost called stripteuses [and did call ecdysiasts] and, by the way, used as the [given name] for the bumbleheaded President in Dr. Stangelove, Merkin Muffley" (Koster). Compare COUN, COUNTRY MATTERS, COYNTE, DELTA, ESCUTCHEON, FOTZEPOLITIK, QUIM, QUIMTESSENCE

. . . horns blared dixieland and rumbas, and striptese dancers flounced their feathered merkins.

--Koster, The Dissertation, p. 62.

Although I told myself I was looking merely for a soothing presence, a glorified pot-au-feu, an animated merkin. . . .

--Nabokov, Lolita, p. 27.

. . . he wears a false cunt and merkin of sable both handcrafted in Berlin by the notorious Mme. Ophir, the mock labia and bright purple clitoris molded of-- Madame had been abject, pleading shortages--synthetic rubber and Mipolam, the new polyvinyl chloride. . . .

--Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 95.

MORMAL :  noun  an inflamed sore on the leg. See PATIBULARY

MUCIN :  noun  proteins found in saliva and mucus

He zips in for a squinny,† mucin in his ringent† jaws, buzzing.

--Davenport, "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier,"
Da Vinci's Bicycle, p. 80.