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{{also|Malkin}}
==English==
===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|maukin|maulkin}}
===Etymology===
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/
===Noun===
{{en-noun}}
# {{lb|en|now|_|archaic|regional}} A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or [[uncultured]] [[woman]]; a [[kitchenmaid]]; a [[slattern]]. {{defdate|from 13th c.}}
#* '''c. 1385''', {{w|William Langland}}, ''Piers Plowman'' (Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 581), I:
#*: Ȝe ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan '''Malkyn''' of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth.
#* '''1950''', Mervyn Peake, ''Titus Groan''▼
#*:: You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than '''Malkin''' from her maidenhood, which no man desires.
#*: 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'''.▼
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1849|author=[[w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]]|title=Poems|volume=2
|page=224
|passage=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[.]}}
# {{lb|en|now|_|regional}} A [[mop]], especially one used to clean a baker's oven. {{defdate|from 15th c.}}
#* '''1662''', {{w|Henry More}}, ''[[s:An Antidote Against Atheism|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."
# {{lb|en|obsolete|nautical}} A [[mop]] or [[sponge]] attached to a jointed [[staff]] for [[swab]]bing out a [[cannon]]. {{defdate|19th c.}}
# {{lb|en|now|_|archaic|regional}} A [[scarecrow]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
#* {{quote-book |en |author=Charles Kingsley |title=Hereward the Wake|location=London|publisher=Nelson|year=1866|chapter=23|page=321|passage=[A] straw '''malkin''' like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.]}}
# {{lb|en|now|_|rare}} A [[cat]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
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# {{lb|en|Scotland|North England}} A [[hare]]. {{defdate|from 18th c.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1982|author=w:TC Boyle|title=Water Music|page=158|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2006
|passage=There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and '''maukin''' roasting on the spit.}}
====Translations====
{{trans-top|lower-class or uncultured woman}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-see|cat}}
===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aiklmn|Kilman|Lamkin}}
{{C|en|Cats|Hares|People}}
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