Green’s Dictionary of Slang

mawkin n.

[Scot. mawkin, a half-grown girl]

1. a simpleton.

[UK]Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday II iii: There be more maides then mawkin, more men then Hodge, and more fooles then Firke.
[UK]M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras’d 16: A Rope, said I? and here’s a Fart. / To hang I am not such a Mawking.
[UK]Congreve Old Bachelor III ii: Thou maukin, made up of shreds and parings of his superflous fopperies!
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 42: E’er since I saw that white-legg’d mawkin, / That water-witch, that Thetis.
[Scot]Dundee Courier 26 Feb. 7/3: Let me deal the cards, and we’ll grip him like a mawkin.
[Ire]Share Slanguage.

2. a promiscuous woman.

[UK]Lyly Pappe with an Hatchet B: I was once determined to write a proper newe Ballet, entituled Martin and his Maukin.
[UK]Fletcher Chances III i: Thou took’st me up at every Word I spoke, As I had been a Maukin, a flurt Gillian.
[UK]Greene & Lodge Lady Alimony III vi: A foutre for such ranging Mawkins.
[UK]Buckingham Chances III i: [as cit. c.1617].
[UK]D’Urfey Comical Hist. of Don Quixote Pt II IV i: Ye ignorant Jade [...] Ye senseless Mawkin.
[UK]J. Gay Distressd Wife I viii: Heavens! How like a Mawkin the Thing looks!
[UK]H. Walpole 8 Apr. Letters I (1891) 153: I beheld a mawkin, in a chair, with three footmen, and a label on her breast, inscribed ‘Lady Mary’.