Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
malkin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
malkin , andmaukin .
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- noun Alternative form of
malkin . - noun Alternative form of
maukin . - noun Ulster
simpleton
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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The King's mother, the Electress Sophia, had commented on her to Mrs. Howard: “Look at that mawkin, and think of her being my son's passion.”
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She's a perfect meeracle, and as soople as a mawkin '.'
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I know I am a vast nuisance; 'tis the penalty, my dear, for having a country mawkin as your best friend.
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Perhaps you mean the mawkin that was put up to scare birds from the peas in the garden, for it has more in its head than Tom.
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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
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The duchess was always frightful; so much so that one night the electress, who had acquired a little English, said to Mrs. Howard, afterwards Lady Suffolk, -- glancing at Mademoiselle Schulemberg -- 'Look at that _mawkin_, and think of her being my son's passion!'
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Sae what's to come o 'us I canna weel see -- I doubt I'll hae to tak the hills wi' the wild whigs, as they ca 'them, and then it will be my lo to be shot down like a mawkin at some dikeside, or to be sent to heaven wi' a Saint
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Sae what's to come o 'us I canna weel see -- I doubt I'll hae to tak the hills wi' the wild whigs, as they ca 'them, and then it will be my lo to be shot down like a mawkin at some dikeside, or to be sent to heaven wi' a Saint
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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 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
hernesheir commented on the word mawkin
(n): a mop used to clean an oven. Gloucestershire dialect.
June 26, 2009