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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Example Sentences

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mawkin

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

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

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

From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

A cat: mawkin signifies a hare in Scotland.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

I never had no faith in t’owd mawkin of a thing.

From Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn

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.

From The Virgin of the Sun by Henry Rider Haggard