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malkin
English
Alternative forms
- maukin, maulkin
Etymology
Diminutive of Malde, an early form of Maude or Matilda. Compare grimalkin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??lk?n/
Noun
malkin (plural malkins)
- (now archaic, regional) A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern. [from 13th c.]
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman (Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 581), I:
- ?e ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth.
- You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than Malkin from her maidenhood, which no man desires.
- ?e ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman (Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 581), I:
- (now regional) A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven. [from 15th c.]
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 120:
- "She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one Peter Grospetter, whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his Maulkin (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath."
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 120:
- (obsolete, nautical) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon. [19th c.]
- (now archaic, regional) A scarecrow. [from 16th c.]
- (now rare) A cat. [from 17th c.]
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her malkins.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- (Scotland, Northern England) A hare. [from 18th c.]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 158:
- There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 158:
Translations
Anagrams
- Lamkin
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calkin
English
Alternative forms
- caulkin
Noun
calkin (plural calkins)
- A calk (on a horseshoe).
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of East and West"
- Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and day
And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away.
- Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of East and West"
Anagrams
- Acklin
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