Complete Definition of "malkin"

English

Etymology
Diminutive of Malde, an early form of Maude or Matilda.

Pronunciation
IPA: /'m�:lkɪn/

Noun
malkin

  1. archaic a lower-class or uncultured woman
  2. archaic a cat

#:*1950: 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. � Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

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