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noun British Dialect.
1.
an untidy woman; slattern.
2.
a scarecrow, ragged puppet, or grotesque effigy.
3.
a mop, especially one made from a bundle of rags and used to clean out a baker's oven.
4.
a cat.
5.
a hare.
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malkin
"a slattern, woman of the lower classes," c.1275, from fem. proper name Malkyn, a dim. of Mault "Maud" (see Matilda). Also attested from c.1207 as the proper name of a female specter. Sense of "untidy woman" led to meaning "mop, bundle of rags on a stick" (used to clean
EXPAND ovens, artillery pieces, etc.), c.1400. Attested as the name of a cat since 1673; used in Scotland and northern England as the name of a hare (1724).
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