mawkin n.
1. a promiscuous woman.
![]() | Pappe with an Hatchet B: I was once determined to write a proper newe Ballet, entituled Martin and his Maukin. | |
![]() | Chances III i: Thou took’st me up at every Word I spoke, As I had been a Maukin, a flurt Gillian. | |
![]() | Owles almanacke 36: [E]uery Mawkin will haue a siluer bodkin to rouse a bird in the haire-bush. | |
![]() | Lady Alimony III vi: A foutre for such ranging Mawkins. | |
![]() | Chances III i: [as cit. c.1617]. | |
![]() | Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt II IV i: Ye ignorant Jade [...] Ye senseless Mawkin. | |
![]() | Distressd Wife I viii: Heavens! How like a Mawkin the Thing looks! | |
![]() | Letters I (1891) 153: I beheld a mawkin, in a chair, with three footmen, and a label on her breast, inscribed ‘Lady Mary’. | 8 Apr.
2. a simpleton.
![]() | Shoemakers’ Holiday II iii: There be more maides then mawkin, more men then Hodge, and more fooles then Firke. | |
![]() | Wits Paraphras’d 16: A Rope, said I? and here’s a Fart. / To hang I am not such a Mawking. | |
![]() | Old Bachelor III ii: Thou maukin, made up of shreds and parings of his superflous fopperies! | |
![]() | Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 42: E’er since I saw that white-legg’d mawkin, / That water-witch, that Thetis. | |
![]() | Dundee Courier 26 Feb. 7/3: Let me deal the cards, and we’ll grip him like a mawkin. | |
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