Malkin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.
3. isim A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
4. isim A scarecrow.

   “[A] straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.]”

5. isim 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.”

6. isim A hare.

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

7. özel isim A surname transferred from the given name.

   “Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a group that promotes conservatism on college campuses, has kicked one of its prominent speakers, Michelle Malkin, to the curb. […] YAF did exactly the right thing by disassociating itself from Malkin for coming to Fuentes’ defense.”