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She's a perfect meeracle, and as soople as a mawkin'.'— The Human Side of Animals
She appealed in some curious way to the animal in him; and before she had been many weeks at Herrenhausen she was his avowed mistress--one of many Just look at that mawkin," the Electress Sophia once exclaimed to Lady Suffolk, who was a guest at the Hanoverian Court, "and think of her being my son's mistress!"— Love Romances of the Aristocracy
He then became merry, and observed how little we had either heard or said at Aberdeen: that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin (the Scottish word for hare) for us to pursue[298 TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 We set out about eight in the morning, and breakfasted at Ellon.— Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
He then became merry, and observed how little we had either heard or said at Aberdeen: that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin (the Scottish word for hare) for us to pursue Tuesday, 24th August We set out about eight in the morning, and breakfasted at Ellon.— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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