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Definition of Mawkin
1. n. See Malkin, and Maukin.
Definition of Mawkin
1. Noun. (alternative form of malkin) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of maukin) ¹
3. Noun. (Ulster) simpleton ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mawkin
1. a scarecrow [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawkin
Literary usage of Mawkin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aberbrothock Illustrated: Being the Round O Etchings in Miniature by John Adam by George Hay (1886)
"... have disappeared these fifty years, being superseded by the flax spinning-mills
and factories, some of which are shown in the picture of the mawkin Pool ..."
2. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1896)
""No, I ain't, I was born so; can't talk any other way. I always did talk this way.''
"I don't believe it. You're mawkin' me, and I'll call my pa and have ..."
3. Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick by Rosaline Orme Masson (1877)
"l Robin on his wayes went As light as leaf of tree ; mawkin ... the bent ;3 Then
mawkin cried on hie, " Now may thou sing, for I am shent; What aileth love ..."
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