Reverse Dictionary: MET – MIF

METAL – nouns
– TOREUMATOGRAPHY * description of the toreutic art (the art of working in metal or ivory), or of works done in it …1727
– TOREUTICS the art, esp. the ancient art, of working in metal or ivory, including embossing, work in relief, etc. …1847
metal – person 
– NAIL GROPER one who scours the streets in search of old nails and similar saleable pieces of discarded metal …M19 sl.
– TOREUTES a worker in toreutics; an artist in metal or ivory …1840
 
METAL DETECTOR – nouns
– SNITCHER a metal detector …1950 US sl.
metal detector – person
– METAL DETECTORIST a person who, for recreation, operates a metal detector …1941 US sl.
 
METAPHOR – nouns
– SCARROW a figure of speech, a metaphor …1894 Sc.
 
METE – verbs
– MARK † to mete out, to allot, to apportion …1340-70 poetic.
 
METEOR – adjectives
– BEARDED of a comet, meteor, etc.: having a trail or tail …c1380
 
METEORITE – nouns
– AIR-STONE † a meteorite …1608
– SKY-STONE a meteorite …1797
meteorite – person
– METEORITICIST a student of meteorites …1955 
 
METEOROLOGIST – see WEATHER 
 
METER – nouns
– LITTLE PETER a gas or electric meter …1992 UK rhyming sl.
 
METHOD – nouns
– GATE † way, manner, or method of doing or behaving; a peculiar habit …c1200
– MIDSES † means, methods, ways …1660 Sc.
 
METHODICAL – adjectives
– ORDINARY † conformable to order or rule; regular; orderly, methodical …1529
 
METHODIST – adjectives
– CHICKEN-EATING Methodist …1966 Amer. dial.
Methodist – nouns 
– WORKUS a Methodist chapel …c1840 Anglicans’ usage
Methodist – person 
– BIBLE-BIGOT a person who is obstinately devoted to the Bible; esp. applied to the Methodists, sometimes contemptuously …1766
– CHICKEN-EATER a Methodist …1966 Amer. dial.
– EELPOT (derogatory) a Methodist …1968 Amer. dial.
– HANDSHAKER a Methodist …1967 Amer. dial.
– METHDIS a member of the Methodist church …Bk1992 Amer. 
– METHO a Methodist …1940 Aust. sl.
– METHODIST HOWLER a Methodist who exhibits religious enthusiasm with loud cries or vigorous bodily motions …1966 Amer. dial.
– METHODY a Methodist …1848 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– METTHERDY a Methodist …1848 Eng. dial.
– METTODY a Methodist …1848 Eng. dial.
– NEW LIGHT a Methodist …M18 sl.
– RANTER a Primitive Methodist; a Dissenter …1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SHINY-PANTS METHODIST a Methodist (slide in, slide out) …1966 Amer. dial.
– SHOUTING METHODIST a Methodist who exhibits religious enthusiasm with loud cries or vigorous bodily motions …1851 Amer. dial.
 
METHYLATED SPIRIT – adjectives
– PINKO drunk on methylated spirit …1925 sl.
methylated spirit – nouns 
– AAI-AAI methylated spirits or absolute alcohol, as drunk by alcoholics …1960s S. Afr. sl.
– AI-AI methylated spirits or absolute alcohol, as drunk by alcoholics …1960s S. Afr. sl.
– BLUE OCEAN methylated spirits …1980s S. Afr. sl.
– CHAT methylated spirits as drunk by alcoholics …1930s Irish sl.
– GOOM methylated spirits, as an alcoholic’s drink …1967 Aust. sl.
– JACK methylated spirit taken as an intoxicant …c1930 sl.
– JAKE methylated spirit …1932 sl., orig. US
– METHO methylated spirit …1933 Aust. & NZ sl.
– METHS methylated spirits …1981 Aust. sl.
– MIX methylated spirits, as drunk by alcoholics …1970s S. Afr. sl.
– RED BIDDY cheap red wine fortified with methylated spirits …1928 colloq.
– SPEED TRAP methylated spirits, as drunk by alcoholics and tramps …1930s S. Afr. sl.
– WHITE LADY methylated spirit …1935 Aust. sl.
methylated spirit – person
– BLUEY a drinker of methylated spirits …20C sl.
– GOOM a drinker of methylated spirits …1960s Aust. sl.
– GOOMEE a drinker of methylated spirit …1973 Aust. sl.
– GOOMY a drinker of methylated spirits …1960s Aust. sl.
– JACK MAN one who habitually drinks methylated spirits …1930s sl.
– METHER a methylated spirits addict …1995 UK sl.
– METHO a methylated spirit addict …1933 Aust. & NZ sl.
– METHO ADDICT a person addicted to methylated spirits …Bk1998 Aust. sl.
 
METICULOUS – adjectives
– PERNICKETTY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise; crotchety, cranky; disagreeable …1834 Amer. dial.
– PERNICKETY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise; crotchety, cranky; disagreeable…1834 Amer. dial.
– PERNICKITY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise; crotchety, cranky; disagreeable …1834 Amer. dial.
– PERSNICKERTY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise; crotchety, cranky; disagreeable, obstinate …1965 Amer. dial.
– PERSNICKETY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise …1956 Amer. dial.
meticulous – person 
– SALLY a person who is meticulous to an absurd, near-certifiable degree …1980s US college sl.
meticulous – verbs 
– DOT ONE’S I’S AND CROSS ONE’S T’S to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail
 
METTLE – nouns
– BRAIN spirit, mettle …Bk1911 Sc.
– DANDER temper, anger, spirit, mettle …1831
– TEETH † temper, disposition; spirit, mettle …Bk1905 Sc.
– TETH † temper, disposition; spirit, mettle …Bk1905 Sc.
 
METTLESOME – adjectives
– BRAINY unmanageable, high-mettled; spirited, lively …Bk1911 Sc.
– FAUSTY irascible, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– FEISTY, FICETY irascible, argumentative, touchy, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– FISTY irascible, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– HANTY wanton, unruly; full of spirit, mettlesome; excited, frisky (generally used of horses) …1721 Eng. dial.
– HAUNTY full of spirit, mettlesome; excited, frisky (generally used of horses) …1721 Eng. dial.
– HIGH-METTLED high-spirited; courageous; full of fire; mettlesome …a1626 arch.
– SPUNK † spirited, courageous, mettlesome …1788
– SPUNKEY, SPUNKIE, SPUNKY spirited, courageous, mettlesome …1786
– TICKLISH skittish, mettlesome …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
mettlesome – person 
– BIRKIE, BIRKY a brisk, active, energetic person; a lively, smart, or mettlesome fellow …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SPUNKIE, SPUNKY a spirited, mettlesome, or courageous person; a smart or lively fellow …1806 Sc.
 
MEW – verbs
– MELL of a cat: to mew …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEOWL to mew or cry like a cat …1888 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MEWT † of a cat: to mew …1737 Sc.
– WRAW †* to mew as a cat …1481
– YARM of a cat: to mew, esp. in a plaintive, persistent manner …a1838 Sc.
– YAW † to cry like a cat; to mew, to caterwaul …1819 Sc.
 
MEWING – nouns
– YARM the cry or whine of a cat; mewing, caterwauling …1880 Sc.
 
MEXICO – adjectives
– ADOBE (derogatory) Mexican; hence, second-rate, inferior …19C US sl.
– DAGO (derogatory) pert. to a Latin, usually an Italian, a Mexican or a Spaniard; any dark-skinned native …M19 sl., orig. US
– MESKIN Mexican …1953 Amer. dial.
– MEX (offensive) Mexican …1854 US sl.
– MEXICONIAN † Mexican …1727
– PACHOOK pert. to Mexican-Americans (esp. street gang members) or their culture …1940s US sl.
– PACHUCO pert. to Mexican-Americans (esp. street gang members) or their culture …1940s US sl.
– PANCHO pert. to Mexicans or to Mexican lifestyle, fashions, etc. …1940s US sl.
– TACO (derogatory) inhabited by or characteristic of Mexicans …1968 Amer. dial.
– TEX-MEX Texan-Mexican …Amer. sl.
Mexico – nouns
– AUNT JANE Tijuana, Mexico …1928 US sl.
– CHIHUAHUA HILL a section of a town or city populate primarily by persons of Mexican ancestry …1966 Amer. dial.
– CHIHUAHUA TOWN a section of a town or city populate primarily by persons of Mexican ancestry …1966 Amer. dial.
– DAGO CENTER (derogatory) the Italian, Mexican, or Puerto Rican area of a town or city …1920s US sl.
– DAGO TOWN (derogatory) the Italian, Mexican, or Puerto Rican area of a town or city …1920s US sl.
– LITTLE CHIHUAHUA a section of a town or city populate primarily by persons of Mexican ancestry …1966 Amer. dial.
– OLD MEXICO Mexico …1863 Amer. dial.
– TACOLAND (derogatory) the part of town where the Mexicans live …1960s sl.
– TACO TELEGRAPH, THE the informal means by which news is spread in Mexican communities …1989 Amer. dial.
– TACO TOWN (derogatory) the Mexican section of a community …1970 Amer. sl.
– WHOREZ ‘Juarez,’ Mexico, a city notorious for vice …M20 US sl.
Mexico – person
– ADOBE MAKER (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican-American …1960s US sl.
– ALAMBRISTA a Mexican illegally present in the US …1974 US Border Spanish
– BATO any Mexican, Puerto Rican, or other Latin person …1971 US Black sl.
– BEAN (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican-American; any Spanish-American …1949 US sl.
– BEAN AND CHILI EATER (derogatory) a Mexican …1954 US sl.
– BEANBAG (usually offensive) a Mexican …1971 US sl.
– BEAN BANDIT (usually offensive) a Mexican or other Latin American …1959 US sl.
– BEAN CHOKER (derogatory) a Mexican; a Spanish-American …1980 US sl.
– BEAN DIP (derogatory) a Mexican …1990 US sl.
– BEAN-EATER (derogatory) a Mexican, esp. a poor Mexican …1919 US sl.
– BEANER (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican-American …1965 US sl.
– BEANO (derogatory) a person of Mexican origin …1965 Amer. dial.
– BIG HAT a person of Mexican heritage …1970 Amer. dial.
– BRACERO orig. a Mexican admitted to the US for seasonal agricultural work; later, any Mexican labourer in the US …1959 Amer. dial.
– BROWN (derogatory) a Mexican …1981 Amer. dial.
– CHARRO a Mexican cowboy or horseman …1932 Amer. dial.
– CHICO a Mexican, esp. one considered of a lower class or mixed blood …1960s US sl.
– CHILI (derogatory) a Mexican …1936 Amer. dial.
– CHILI-EATER (derogatory) a Mexican …1911 US sl.
– CHOLO (usually derogatory) a Mexican, esp. a low-class one; a half-breed …1851 Amer. dial.
– DAGO (derogatory) a person of Hispanic birth or descent; a Mexican or Puerto Rican …1823 Amer. sl.
– DINO (mildly derogatory) a nickname for a Mexican or Italian labourer …20C US sl.
– ENCHILADA-EATER (derogatory) a nickname for a Mexican …M20 US sl.
– FRIJOLE-EATER (derogatory) a Mexican …20C US sl.
– FRIJOLE GUZZLER (derogatory) a Mexican …20C US sl.
– GREASER a native Mexican or native Spanish American; orig. applied contemptuously by Americans in the south-western United States to the Mexicans’ …1848 US sl.
– MESCAN a Mexican …1967 Amer. dial.
– MESKIN a Mexican …1953 Amer. dial.
– MEX (offensive) a Mexican or Mexican-American …1847 US sl.
– MEXICANO anyone from Mexico …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MEXIE (usually offensive) a Mexican …1899 US sl.
– MOJADO an illegal Mexican immigrant to the United States; a ‘wetback’ …1971 US colloq.
– OILER (derogatory) a nickname for a Mexican …1907 Amer. sl.
– PACHOOK a Mexican-American, esp. a young man who joins a street gang …1940s US sl.
– PACHUCA (often derogatory) a female Mexican-American young person, usually rowdy, tough, sometimes a member of a gang (Spanish) …1980 US
– PACHUCO a young Mexican-American, esp. a tough or gang member …1943 US sl. 
– PANCHO (derogatory) a term of address to an anonymous Mexican man …1960s US sl.
– PELADO (usually derogatory) a low-class Mexican …1848 Amer. dial.
– PEON (derogatory) a Mexican or person of Mexican origin …1882 Amer. dial.
– PEPPER (often derogatory) a Mexican or person of Mexican origin …1960 Amer. sl.
– PEPPER BELLY (often derogatory) a Mexican or person of Mexican origin …1962 Amer. sl.
– PEPPER GUT (often derogatory) a Mexican or person of Mexican origin …1944 Amer. sl.
– SHEEPHERDER (usually derogatory) a Mexican …1949 Amer. dial.
– SHUCK (derogatory) a nickname for a Mexican …M20 US sl.
– TACO (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican-American …1968 Amer. dial.
– TACO BELLE a Latin American woman …1989 sl. 
– TACO-BENDER (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican-American …1970 Amer. sl.
– TACO-BREATH (derogatory) a Mexican …1978 US sl.
– TACO-EATER (derogatory) a Mexican; a Chicano …1978 US sl.
– TACO-HEAD (derogatory) a Mexican or a Chicano …1978 US sl. 
– TACO-ROLLER (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican-American …1968 Amer. sl.
– TACO-TWISTER (derogatory) a Mexican migrant worker …1974 Amer. sl.
– TAMALE (derogatory) a Mexican girl or woman, esp. if attractive or desirable …1982 US sl. 
– TAMALE-EATER (derogatory) a Mexican …1909 US sl.
– TEX-MEX a native of the Texas-Mexico border region …1949 Amer. sl.
– TIO TACO (derogatory) a Mexican-American who curries favour with the dominant White culture; a Mexican who is considered insufficiently nationalistic by others …1969 US sl.
– TONY a nickname for an Italian or Mexican man …1907 Amer. dial.
– WET an illegal immigrant from Mexico to the US; hence, to any illegal immigrant …1973 US sl.
– WETBACK (derogatory) a Mexican or Mexican American; orig. an illegal Mexican who was still wet from swimming across the Rio Grande …1920 US colloq.
– YELLOW-BELLY † (derogatory) a Mexican, esp. a soldier …1842
 
MICHIGAN – nouns
– AMITYVILLE Detroit, Michigan …2000 US sl.
– BIG BLUE the University of Michigan; a sports team. esp. the football team, of the University of Michigan …1987 US students’ sl.
– BIG D Detroit, Michigan …1961 US sl.
– D Detroit …1970s US sl.
– MOTOR CITY Detroit, Michigan …1961 US sl.
– MOTOWN Detroit, Michigan …1971 US sl.
– ‘VILLE Detroit, Michigan …2000 US sl.
Michigan – person
– PACKER-BACKER-MAKI a beer-drinking, snow-suit wearing, Skoal-chewing, snowmobile-riding fan of the Green Bay Packer football team …2004 Michigan Upper Peninsula usage
– TROLL a person who lives in or is from Michigan’s Lower Peninsula …1994 Amer. dial.
– YOOPER a person who lives in or is from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; the dialect of such a person …1979 Amer. dial.
– YOUPER a person who lives in or is from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; the dialect of such a person …1979 Amer. dial.
– YUPER a person who lives in or is from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; the dialect of such a person …1979 Amer. dial.
 
MICROPHONE – verbs
– BUG to equip with a hidden microphone …1935 sl., orig. US
 
MICROSCOPE – nouns
– KEEKER a microscope …1908 Sc.
– OPTIC † an eyeglass, lens, magnifying lass; a microscope, a telescope …a1631
 
MICROWAVE OVEN – nouns
– NUKER a microwave-oven …1980s Brit. sl.
microwave oven – verbs 
– NUKE to cook or warm-up food in a microwave-oven …1987 sl.
 
MIDDAY – nouns
– HIGH-TWELVE midday, noon …1827
– KEEK O’ NOON midday …1927 Sc.
– MIDDLE-DAY midday …1898 Eng. dial.
– MIDNOON noon, midday …1801 Sc.
– MIDS-DAY † midday, noon …1824 Sc.
– MIDTIME OF DAY noon, midday …1892 Sc.
– OVERNOON † midday; afternoon …1779
 
MIDDLE – adjectives
– MIDDLEIST middle-most, most central …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLEMER central, middle, coming between the eldest and youngest in age …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NAVEL * situated in the middle …1818
middle – adverbs
– BUNG in the very middle of things …1899
middle – nouns 
– HEY-DIDDLE-DIDDLE the middle …Bk1999 Aust. rhyming sl.
– MELL the middle …1859 Sc.
– NAVEL the central or middle point of anything …1603
– UMBILIC † the centre; the middle point or part …1607
 
MIDDLE AGE – nouns
– MID-ELD middle age …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLDHOOD advancing years, the period of middle age …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
MIDDLE-AGED – adjectives
– HALF-OLD middle-aged …1790 Sc.
– MID-AGED middle-aged …1897 Sc.
– OF A CERTAIN AGE description of a middle-aged or older person, usually a woman …M18 euphemism
– OLD YOUNG middle-aged …1898 Sc.
middle-aged – nouns 
– MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD paunchiness in a middle-aged person …1931 sl.
middle-aged – person 
– BOILER (derogatory) a woman of a certain age, an unattractive or unfeminine woman, esp.  one who is middle-aged or elderly …1962 sl.
– GERI, GERRY a geriatric; an old or middle-aged person …1977 sl.
– OLD BAT a disagreeable, middle-aged or elderly woman; an unpleasant or despicable female; an unattractive or foolish old woman …1886 UK sl.
 
MIDDLE-CLASS – adjectives
– BURBED OUT looking very middle-class and suburban; decked out like a suburban citizen …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
– BUZHIE middle-class …Bk2006 US sl.
– MIDDLE BROW middle-class; average or mediocre …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
middle-class – person 
– BABBITT a self-opinionated, self-satisfied small-town bourgeois, with all the prejudices of such a figure – a narrow-minded, middle-class materialist …1959 Wicked Words Rawson 1989
– BUZHIE a middle-class person …Bk2006 US sl.
– EXCUSE-ME a member of the educated middle class …1960s S. Afr. sl.
– GEORGE the typical middle-class householder, esp. if married, steady, and respectable …1935 colloq.
– GIGMAN a narrow-minded, conventional member of the middle class, who views ‘respectability’ as the chief concern of life …1830
– GIGMANESS a narrow-minded, conventional female member of the middle class, who views ‘respectability’ as the chief concern of life …1831 nonce word
– OK YARDIE a stereotypical Briton of the upper-class or middle-class who lives in west London’s gangland …1998 UK sl.
– SLOANE a fashionable and conventional upper-middle-class young person (usually female), esp. living in London …1975 Brit. sl.
– SLOANE RANGER a fashionable and conventional upper-middle-class young person (usually female), esp. living in London …1975 Brit. sl.
– SLOANIE a ‘Sloane Ranger’ …1982 Brit. sl. 
 
MIDDLE EAST – person
– CAMEL-CHASER (derogatory) a Syrian or Indian, or any form of Arab from the Middle  East …1960s sl., orig. US
– CAMEL-DRIVER an Arab, a native of the Middle East …1960s sl.
– CAMEL-FUCKER (derogatory) an Arab, a native of the Middle East …1960s US sl.
– CAMELHEAD (derogatory) an Arab, a native of the Middle East …2000s US sl.
– CAMEL JOCK (derogatory) an Arab, a native of the Middle East …1966 US sl.
– CAMEL JOCKEY (derogatory) an Arab, a native of the Middle East …1960s US sl.
– CHOC (offensive) a person of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background …1987 Aust. sl.
– SAND-COON (derogatory) an Arab from the Middle East …2000s sl.
– SAND GOOK an Arab; a Middle Easterner …2007 US sl. 
– SAND-JOCKEY (derogatory) an Arab from the Middle East …2000s sl.
– SAND NIGGER (derogatory) an Arab or any other native of the Middle East (except Israelis) …1984 US sl.
– SAND TOAD an Arab; a Middle Easterner …2002 US sl.
– SAND WOG (derogatory) an Arab or Middle Easterner …1999 sl.
– TEA-TOWEL HEAD (derogatory) an Arab from the Middle East …1985 sl. 
 
MIDDLING – adjectives
– MEETERLY moderate, in a fair state, middling …1684 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLEMISH moderate, middling; not liberal …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIDDLE-WAY middling, pretty well …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIDGING middling, esp. used in greetings …1954 Amer. dial.
middling – adverbs 
– MEEVERLY moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health; easily, gently …1790 Eng. dial.
– MEVERLY moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health; easily, gently …1860 Eng. dial.
 
MIDGE – nouns
– THUNDER-BUG a midge …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THUNDER-FLY a midge …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
MIDNIGHT – nouns
– DEAD HOUR OF NIGHT, THE midnight …1870 Sc.
– DEVIL’S DANCING HOUR midnight …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HEAD OF THE DIM, THE midnight …Bk1900 Sc.
– MIDDLE-NIGHT † midnight …c1205 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MIRK-NIGHT midnight, the darkest hour of the night …1819 Sc.  
– NOON OF NIGHT midnight …1710 poetic
– TWELVE O’ NIGHT midnight …1873 Sc.
midnight – phrases 
– TURN OF THE NIGHT passing midnight …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 
MIDRIFF – nouns
– HEART-SPOON † the pit of the stomach; the navel or midriff …a1728 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MIDDERN the midriff or diaphragm …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIDRED the midriff, the diaphragm …1834 Eng. dial.
 
MIDSHIPMAN – see NAVY
 
MIDWIFE – adjectives
– OBSTETRICATORY †* pert. to the office of a midwife …1640
– OBSTETRICIOUS † pert. to a midwife; assisting childbirth …a1645
midwife – nouns  (includes MIDWIFERY) 
– BABBY-JOB a midwifery case …1890 Eng. dial.
– OBSTETRICATION †* the action or office of a midwife; delivery …a1615
– OBSTETRICOGRAPHY * the scientific description of midwifery …1828
– OBSTETRICY * midwifery; the practice of obstetrics …1841
– TOCOLOGY the science of parturition, or of midwifery; obstetrics …1828
midwife – person
– ACCOUCHEUR properly, a man who assists women in childbirth, a man-midwife; until the adoption of ‘accoucheuse’ it was used of both sexes …1727
– ACCOUCHEUSE a woman who assists in childbirth, esp. one who is professionally trained; a midwife …1795 arch.
– AUNT a midwife …1968 Amer. dial.
– AUNTIE a midwife …1968 Amer. dial.
– BABY CATCHER a midwife …1937 Amer. dial.
– BABY WOMAN a midwife …1968 Amer. dial.
– BIRTHDAME a midwife …1947 Amer. dial.
– CANNY WIFE a midwife …1810 Sc.
– CHILD NURSE a midwife …1968 Amer. dial.
– DOCTOR LADY a midwife …1987 Amer. dial.
– DOCTOR WOMAN a midwife …1966 Amer. dial.
– GAMP a monthly or sick nurse, esp. if disreputable; a midwife …1864 sl.
– GODMOTHER a midwife …1956 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY a midwife …1794 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY DOCTOR a midwife; an obstetrician …1917 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY WOMAN a midwife …1924 Amer. dial.
– HAGWIFE a midwife …1883 Sc.
– HAND-MAMMY a midwife …1970 Amer. dial.
– HAND-WOMAN a midwife …1847 Eng. dial.
– HEADSWOMAN a midwife …a1825 Eng. dial.
– MAMGUJLLA a midwife …1908 Sc.
– MAMMGULLA a midwife …1908 Sc.
– MAMMIE, MAMMY a midwife …1808 Sc.
– MAMMY WIFE a midwife …1912 Sc.
– MAN-MIDWIFE * a man assists women in childbirth; an accoucheur …1625
– MIDLADY a midwife …1967 Amer. dial.
– MIDMOTHER a midwife …c1960 Amer. dial.
– MIDNIGHT NURSE a midwife …1940 Amer. dial.
– MIDNIGHT WIFE a midwife …c1955 Amer. dial.
– MIDWOMAN a midwife …1986 Amer. dial.
– MOLE-CATCHER a midwife …Bk1891 UK sl.
– MONITRICE a woman who gives guidance and support during pregnancy and labour; an accoucheuse or midwife …1969
– MOTHER MIDNIGHT a midwife; esp. one who delivers or aborts illegitimate children …1602 sl.
– OBSTETRIST * an obstetrician; one skilled in midwifery …a1800
– OBSTETRIX * a midwife; a woman obstetrician; a woman who renders professional aid to women in labour …1839
– OLD GRANNY a midwife …1965 Amer. dial.
– RABBIT CATCHER a nickname for a midwife …Bk1796 sl.
– SAGE FEME † a midwife …1672 
– SAGE WOMAN * a midwife …1672
– SARAH GAMP a middle-aged, unqualified, drinking midwife …Bk1922
– WISE WOMAN a midwife …Bk1891 sl.
– WOMAN DOCTOR a midwife, an obstetrician …1966 Amer. dial.
midwife – verbs
– GRANNY to perform the services of a midwife; to act as a midwife for; to assist in the delivery of a child or, occasionally, an animal …1897 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY-WIFE to perform the services of a midwife; to act as a midwife for; to assist in the delivery of a child or, occasionally, an animal …1960 Amer. dial.
– OBSTETRICATE † to act as midwife; to aid in childbirth …1623
 
MIEN – nouns
– GATURE †* gait, mien …1538