Meaning of mimmerkin | Babel Free

Definitions

A deformed or freakish person; a dwarf or dwarfish creature.

Scotland, archaic, dialectal

Examples

“'So it's your problem, no mine, if the wee mimmerkin's run⟳,' he added, wiping his hand on his jerkin. 'Get⟳ a move⟳ on, man, Iw ant to get⟳ a hold⟳ of Bernard Stewart before he takes refuge the wrong side of that wall.'”

“'A mimmerkin. A dwarf.' 'I am not a dwarf.' Maude Benet had been stern. Sometimes even sharp. But she had not called folk names. Elspet had telt him, as Maude would have⟳ done. And he had laughed at her.”

CEFR level