Definition of Malken

Definition of Malken

Mal"kin (?), n. [Dim. of Maud, the proper name. Cf. Grimalkin.] [Written also maukin.] 1. Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.

2. A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.

3. A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]

4. (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

MALKIN, or MAULKIN. A general name for a cat; also a
parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an
oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds;
likewise an awkward woman. The cove's so scaly, he'd
spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he
would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.

- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

(archaic) a lower-class or uncultured woman
(archaic) a cat
*1950: 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. — Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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