morkin

English

Etymology

Probably from mort +‎ -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”).

Noun

morkin (plural morkins)

  1. (obsolete) An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
    • Bishop Joseph Hall
      Could hee[sic] not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]

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