Meaning of malkin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
2. A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
   archaic, regional
3. A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.
   regional
4. A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
   obsolete
5. A scarecrow.
   archaic, regional
6. A cat.
   archaic
7. A hare.
   Northern-England, Scotland

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Examples

“Ȝe 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.”

“We did but keep⟳ you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]”

“"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."”

“[A] straw malkin like⟳ thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.]”

“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.”

“There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell⟳ of goose and maukin roasting on the spit⟳.”

“Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a group that promotes conservatism on college campuses, has kicked one of its prominent speakers, Michelle Malkin, to the curb. […] YAF did exactly the right thing by disassociating itself from Malkin for coming to Fuentes’ defense.”

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