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▪ I. murgeon, n.1 Now dial.|ˈmɜːdʒən|
Also 5 margon, 7 murgion, 8 mergin, mudgeon.
[Of obscure origin; cf. dial. morge (Chesh.) mudge (Linc.) of similar meaning.]
† Dirt, refuse, dregs (obs.); wet peaty soil; the mortar and cement of old walls.
a1400–50Alexander 628 It come noȝt a kyng son ȝe knaw wele to sytt Doune in margon & molle emange othire schrewis. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. iv. 229 Many fetch Moore-earth or Murgion from the riuer between Colebrooke and Uxbridge. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes *251 Some..Vapours that arose from the Mudgeon or Dregs of the Liquor. 1787W. Marshall Norfolk (1795) I. 30 Another specimen of manure much coveted here is ‘mergin’—that is the rubbish of old buildings.
▪ II. murgeon, n.2 Now only Sc.|ˈmɜːdʒən|
Also 6 morgeowne.
[Of obscure origin.]
pl. Grimaces, bodily antics.
1500–20Dunbar Poems liii. 38 Scho maid sic morgeownis with hir hippis, For lauchter nain mycht hald thair lippis. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 495 With mudȝons, and murgeons, and mouing the braine, They lay it, they lift it [etc.]. 1695J. Sage Fundam. Charter Presbyt. Pref. (1697) n 2, If their Mein had resembled so much as the Murgeons of an Ape, I could have pardon'd him. 1858Ramsay Remin. Ser. i. (1860) 174 He..gars them fissle, and loup, and mak murgeons to please the great fowk.
Comb.1824Scott St. Ronan's ii, Down cam masons and murgeon-makers, and preachers and player-folk.
▪ III. murgeon, v. Sc.|ˈmɜːdʒən|
Also 6 murion, 7 mourgean, murgean.
[f. murgeon n.2]
trans. a. To make grimaces at (a person). Also absol. to grimace. b. pseudo-arch. To murmur, mutter.
15..Christ's Kirk Gr. 29 (Bannatyne MS.) Scho skornit Jok and skraipit at him, And mvrionit him with mokkis. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 2 The world, who..hes beene accustomed to murgean and apishly to imitate the kirks holy ceremonies. Ibid. 10 In steed of mourning in the dust..we mumchance and mourgean in such dilicate duilles, that [etc.]. 1837J. M. Wilson Hist. T. Borders III. 304 How he..murgeoned his Cameronian aiths as he saw their smolt spirits scour awa to heaven like fire flaughts! |