▪ I. † mang, v.1 Sc. and north. Obs.
a. trans. To bewilder, lead astray. b. intr. To be bewildered, go wrong; to go mad.
| c 1440 York Myst. xlii. 132 What saie ȝe men? allas! for tene I trowe ȝe mang. a 1510 Douglas K. Hart 104 And all that couth attene the castell neir, It made thame for to mer amiss, and mang. 1513 ― æneis viii. Prol. 16 Musing marris our myrth half mangit allmost. 1562 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) i. 79 To mend þat menȝe hes sa monye mangit God gif þe grace. a 1600 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlvii. 9 Resave, vhill than, a harte lyk for to mang. 1768 Ross in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Song (1875) 360/2 She chokit and boakit, and cried like to mang. |
▪ II. † mang, v.2 slang. Obs.
(See quot.)
| 1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Mang, to speak or talk. |
▪ III. mang
variant of mong n.1 and v.