minnock

But there the definition of the term was this: -- 'Minx: the female of minnock; a pert wanton.'

Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

Whether she was the female of a minnock (whatever that may be) or whether she was only a very well-meaning schoolmistress desirous of enlivening a monotonous existence, Miss Wilkes certainly took us out of ourselves a good deal.

Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

III. ii.19 (57,4) [minnock] This is the reading of the old quarto, and

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746