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malkin .
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You will laugh at me, who, the other day, meeting one of these mobs, drove up to it to see what was the matter: the first thing I beheld was a maulkin, in a chair, with three footmen, and
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Hes a liar and stated he wanted to kill maulkin. he is a bad man and should be on this list.
chained_bear commented on the word 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."
September 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word maulkin
Forget buffalo. In the parlours of 1811 everyone was talking about an oven-cleaning tatterdemalion pussy on a pole, plonked in the garden to scare the crows off a jezebel.
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October 31, 2008