Willie Nicol of the 'peck o' maut '-- an interesting memorial of the simplicity of country life in Scotland at the close of the eighteenth century. ❋ Various (1841)
I think I could agree with this, i think mat comes from the Persian word maut and NOT the latin mort which means death, i think the word mort is obtained from persian which means death. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Shubhendu: "... i think mat comes from the Persian word maut and NOT the latin mort which means death" ❋ Unknown (2008)
‘Come, come, provost,’ said the lady; rising, ‘if the maut gets abune the meal with you, it is time for me to take myself away — And you will come to my room, gentlemen, when you want a cup of tea.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nodame naksir berat ma ni orang, apartemen mereka bersebelahan dan Nodame sering [buanget] ngericuhi Chiaki dengan mengikuti Chiaki kemanapun dia pergi, numpang makan di t4 Chiaki, numpang mandi, numpang tidur, numpang segalanya, tanpa mempedulikan penolakan2 Chiaki mulai dari pukulan maut dll mpe Nodame tereak "Gyaboooooooo!!!" ❋ Mayoineko (2007)
Maine maut ko itne kareeb se dekha hai ki zindagi ke har pal hi keemat samajh aati hai. ❋ Chirayu (2005)
Other toasts followed, interspersed with ditties from other performers; old George Thomson, the friend of Burns, was ready, for one, with The Moorland Wedding, or Willie brewd a peck o maut; and so it went on, until Scott and Erskine, with any clerical or very staid personage that had chanced to be admitted, saw fit to withdraw. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Groanin maut, groaning malt, brewed for a lying-in. ❋ Unknown (1909)
We'll mak our maut, and we'll brew our drink, [malt] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)
Still we were in Burns's country, for by Craigie Burn lived Jean Lorimer, to whom he wrote love-songs; and a little farther on was the scene where "Willie brewed a peck o 'maut." ❋ Unknown (1889)
-- _Maliku'l-maut_ is the Muhammadan form of the name, _Kâl_ is the Hindu form. ❋ Flora Annie Steel (1888)
When I was young, Speyside men mostly shuffled off this mortal coil by being upset from their gigs when driving home recklessly from market with "the maut abune the meal;" but the railways have done away in great measure with this cause of death. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)
"Ná'i al-maut", the person sent round to announce a death to the friends and relations of the deceased and invite them to the funeral. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
It looks like summat belongin '-- maut-grindin', or summat o 'that.' ❋ Edwin Waugh (1853)
'Willie brewed a peck o' maut, 'had not Dr Currie, the editor of the posthumous collection of Burns's works, inserted therein a note, stating that the merry-meeting' took place at Laggan, a farm purchased by Mr Nicol in Nithsdale, on the recommendation of Burns. ' ❋ Various (1841)
Nicol had had a lodging there, in which to enjoy his few weeks of autumn vacation; Burns and Masterton -- the one from Ellisland, the other from Dalswinton -- had journeyed thither in company; and there, probably in some small cottage room, had the strength of the peck o 'maut been tried. ❋ Various (1841)
A'se ta'en Donkin on t 'reet side, an' he'll coom in to-morrow, just permiskus, an 'ax for work, like as if 't were a favour; t' oud felley were a bit cross-grained at startin ', for he were workin' at farmer Crosskey's up at t 'other side o' t 'town, wheer they puts a strike an' a half of maut intil ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
'Come, come, provost,' said the lady; rising, 'if the maut gets abune the meal with you, it is time for me to take myself away -- And you will come to my room, gentlemen, when you want a cup of tea.' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Cong hits back at Modi for mega deal with Dow minister Narendra Modi baited Congress on the identity of Bhopal's "maut ka saudagar", it transpires that his government signed a mega deal with gas tragedy for the way the legal case has panned out over the last 26 years, on Wednesday announced the reconstitution of a ❋ Unknown (2010)
