(UK, Liverpudlian, historical) A working-class woman, typically dressed in a shawl, carrying one or more babies, and working as a market trader.

plural of Mary Ellen

(electronics) A thin lacquer-like layer of polymer that is usually applied to the copper traces of a printed circuit board for protection against oxidation and to prevent solder bridges from forming between closely spaced solder pads.

(botany) Any of the genus Rhexia of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae.

plural of meadow beauty

(accounting, computing, statistics, dated) Electromechanical machine used to summarise information and perform accounting calculations.

(international shipping) A computer. / (computing, accounting, dated) An accounting machine or tabulating machine.

A man from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).

(colloquial, archaic) A form of mild swearing used to emphasis the truth of an assertion; accompanied by if and the opposite of the assertion.

Alternative form of I wish I may be shot