malkin

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von malkin im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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

Silbentrennung

mal·kin

Türkische aussprache

mälkîn

Aussprache

/ˈmalkən/ /ˈmælkɪn/

Etymologie

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