English Dictionary

malkin

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɔːlkɪn/

名詞

古語 地域限定 廃用 イングランド北部方言 スコットランド英語

(now archaic, regional) A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern. / (now regional) A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.

日本語の意味

（現代ではほぼ使われない）下層階級または無教養な女性、台所の女中、またはだらしない女性を指す表現 / （地方方言で）パン屋のオーブン掃除などに用いるモップ

Old tales called the noisy tavern woman a malkin, though many found the term cruel.

昔話では、その騒々しい酒場の女性を下層階級で教養のない女性と呼んでいましたが、多くの人はその呼び方を残酷だと感じていました。

意味（1）

(now archaic, regional) A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

Ȝe ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth. You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than Malkin from her maidenhood, which no man desires.

意味（2）

(now regional) A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.

She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one Peter Grospetter, whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his Maulkin (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath.

意味（3）

(obsolete, nautical) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

意味（4）

(now archaic, regional) A scarecrow.

意味（5）

(now rare) 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.

意味（6）

(Scotland, Northern England) A hare.

There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.

malkins （ plural ）