How to use mawkin in a sentence
Forbye, I would rather walk ae mile on the hill wi ye than twae, for ye gang up a brae-face like a mawkin!
The Half-Hearted | John BuchanI pray, let them go; there be more maids than mawkin, more men than Hodge, and more fools than Firk.
Perhaps you mean the mawkin that was put up to scare birds from the peas in the garden, for it has more in its head than Tom.
The Virgin of the Sun | H. R. Haggard
British Dictionary definitions for mawkin
mawkin
/ (ˈmɔːkɪn) /
noun
a variant of malkin
British dialect
a slovenly woman
a scarecrow
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