Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
malkin .
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- 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.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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She's a perfect meeracle, and as soople as a mawkin '.'
The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923
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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.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912
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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.
The Virgin of the Sun Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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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
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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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!'
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847
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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
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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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
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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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. James Boswell 1767
hernesheir commented on the word mawkin
(n): a mop used to clean an oven. Gloucestershire dialect.
June 26, 2009