malkin

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a lower-class or uncultured woman
a cat

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.

{n} a dirty, wench, a mop
Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern
A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon
A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant
A scarecrow
malkin

    Hyphenation

    mal·kin

    Turkish pronunciation

    mälkîn

    Pronunciation

    /ˈmalkən/ /ˈmælkɪn/

    Etymology

    () Diminutive of Malde, an early form of Maude or Matilda.
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