mawkin
Americannoun
noun
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a variant of malkin
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dialect
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a slovenly woman
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a scarecrow
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Example Sentences
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Mawkin fails to say that businesses are taxed to pay for externalities they use: infrastructure, educated work force, security...
From New York Times
Causley left, leaving Mawkin in urgent need of strong vocals.
From The Guardian
Mawkin Crow Goodform Records When Mawkin:Causley released The Awkward Recruit three years ago, it seemed they were destined to become major folk celebrities.
From The Guardian
But the doctor easily maintained his conversational supremacy over his academic hosts, who 'started not a single mawkin for us to pursue.'
From Project Gutenberg
"Mawkin."—Is this word, which signifies here "a scarecrow," merely a Norfolk pronunciation of mocking? i. e. an imitation of a man—composed of coat, hat, &c. hung upon a cross bar of wood?
From Project Gutenberg
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