mawkin

American  

[maw-kin] / ˈmɔ kɪn /

noun

1. malkin.

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mawkin British  

/ ˈmɔːkɪn /

noun

1. a variant of malkin

2. dialect

   1. a slovenly woman

   2. a scarecrow

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mawkin

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."

From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

This word is, probably, derived from slow and mawkin.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings

But the doctor easily maintained his conversational supremacy over his academic hosts, who 'started not a single mawkin for us to pursue.'

From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask

I beseech ye," said he, "my dear Agamemnon, do you remember the twelve labours of Hercules, or the story of Ulysses, how a Cyclop put his thumb out of joint with a mawkin?

From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by William Burnaby

She's a perfect meeracle, and as soople as a mawkin'.'

From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

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