mawkin n.
1. 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. | ||
Slanguage. |
2. 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. | ||
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.