mutchkin
Americannoun
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Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
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a container, usually of pewter, holding this quantity.
noun
Etymology
Origin of mutchkin
1375–1425; late Middle English ( Scots ) muchekyn < Middle Dutch mudseken, equivalent to mudse (diminutive of mudde ≪ Latin modius measure of grain) + -ken -kin
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"I know," said Eben, shaking his head, "but they are long-patienced fellows, these sappers—not like cavalrymen or lazy Preventives, who want nothing better than to lie up with a pipe and a mutchkin!"
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Barshalloch very handsomely complimented me, and sent for the mutchkin.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
"Hout, deills i' the wife, wi' her saughs, and her sunkies, and Ellangowans—Godsake, woman, let me away—there's saxpence t'ye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o' clavering about thae auld-warld stories."
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
"Aggie, fill me a mutchkin when you're at it," said Gourlay to the pretty barmaid with the curly hair.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
He claimed half a mutchkin as fore-handit fee, An' syne yokit howkin' in Sandy's sair e'e.
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
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