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Mas, n.1
Also 6–7 masse, 7–9 mass, 7 mes, 8–9 mess. βU.S. 9– mars(e. Cf. also mast n.4
[Shortened f. master n.]
1. A vulgar or jocular shortening of master, usually followed by a proper name or official title.
1575Gamm. Gurton Prol. 12 Mas Doctor was sent for, these gossyps to staye, Because he was Curate, and estemed full wyse. 1578Whetstone 1st Pt. Promos & Cass. v. v, Well, masse Grimball. 1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 4 An Archb. is very weakely defended by masse Dean. a1592Greene Jas. IV, v. iv, What sees Mas Lawyer in this state amiss? 1605B. Jonson Volpone ii. i, Is Mass' Stone dead! 1625― Staple of N. ii. iv, Sir, by both Your worshipfull Titles, and your name Mas Broker, Good morrow. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1239 The Isle of Wight..Where Hinderson, and th' other Masses, Were sent to Cap Texts, and put Cases. a1722S. Centlivre Platonick Lady i. i, Is there any thing so disagreable on earth as the sayings of Miss and Mass repeated? 1837Southern Lit. Messenger III. 174 Mass Phil been very uneasy about you.
(β) mars(e.
Freq. in Black English contexts.
1874‘H. Churton’ Toinette xxviii. 301 He gave Toinette to young Marse Geoffrey. 1880A. W. Tourgée Bricks without Straw 408 The old time ‘Marse’ was now almost universally used, and few ‘niggers’ presumed to speak to a white man..without removing their hats. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxviii. 391 Why, Mars Tom, I doan' want no rats. 1901B. T. Washington Up from Slavery 12, I recall the feeling of sorrow among the slaves when they heard of the death of ‘Mars' Billy’. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny ii. 39 Marse Robert robbing the bank! Ibid. xxi. 350 I'm not going back on Mars' Jeff. 1949[see line n.2 17 b]. 1950R. Ames in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 488/1 The old time darky's..love for ‘ole marse’ and ‘ole mist'ess’. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 8 Thaar's where ole Marse Shao used to sit.
2. Mas John, applied jocularly or contemptuously to a Scottish Presbyterian minister, in contradistinction to an Anglican or Roman clergyman. arch.
1661Jer. Taylor Serm. Wks. 1850 VIII. 533 To prefer the private minister before the public, the presbyter before a bishop,..and Mas John before the patriarch of Jerusalem. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 136 In..Scotland there were I know not how many Mas Johns restored in one day to the work of their Ministry. 1682H. More Contin. Remark. Stories 27 The Narration..being rather a Colluctation of Mes John and the Presbytery on one side, and the foul Fiend..on the other side. 1695Sage Fund. Charter Presbyt. (1697) 395 But Mas John takes the Chair without Election; and would not be a little grated if the best Laird in the Parish should be his Competitor. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 44 These new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets. 1821Galt Ann. Parish i. 14 The bairns, when they saw me coming, ran crying to their mothers, ‘Here's the feckless Mess-John.’ 1826Scott Woodst. xxviii, You are not, I apprehend, either a Catholic priest or a Scotch Mass-John to claim devoted obedience from your hearers. |