PATTERSON ON NEWFOUNDLAND DIALECT. lili 
Liveyer. This word is used particularly on the coast of Labrador, 
but also in Newfoundland, to denote a resident, in contrast with one 
visiting for fishing or other purposes. It simply seems the word liver, 
altered in the pronunciation. They treat the word Jover in a similar 
way, calling it /oveyer, as is done in some English provincial dialects. 
This, however, being from the Anglo-Saxon lusian, is nearer the original 
than the common form. 
Logy, heavy and dull in respect of motion. Anglo-Saxon Liggan, 
Dutch logge, a sluggard. In the United States the word is applied to 
men or animals, as a logy preacher or a logy horse. In Newfoundland, 
in like manner, they will speak of a logy vessel, a slow sailer, and in 
addition, when from want of wind a boat or vessel cannot get ahead or 
can only proceed slowly, they will speak of having a /ogy time. 
Lun, a calm. This word exists in Scotch and northern English as 
loun. It also appears in Swedish as dugn, pronounced Jwngn, and in old 
Icelandic as logn, pronounced loan. 
Marebrowed. The word mare in Anglo-Saxon means a demon or 
goblin, of which we have a survival in the word nightmare. But there 
is in Newfoundland another survival of it in the word mare browed, 
applied to a man whose eyebrows extend across his forehead, and who is 
dreaded as possessed of supernatural powers. 
Midered or moidered, worried. In the latter form Halliwell gives it 
as provincial English for distracted. 
Mouch, to play truant, and also applied to shirking work or duty. 
This is the same with the old English word, variously spelled meech, 
meach and miche, to lie hid or skulk, hence to cower or to be servilely 
humble or mean. The form mouch is still retained in the north of 
Ireland and is common in Scotland. I lately observed it as used by 
the tramps in New York to denote concealing or disguising one’s self. 
I find it also used by school boys in some parts of Nova Scotia. 
Mundel, a stick with a flat end for stirring meal when boiling for 
porridge. Wright gives it as used in Leicestershire as an instrument 
for washing potatoes, and he and Halliwell both give it as Northumber- 
land, denoting a slice or stick used in making puddings. In Old Norse 
there is a word mdéndull, pronounced mundull, which means a_ handle, 
especially of a handmill, and the word is frequent in modern Ice- 
landie. 
