mutchkin
English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mudseken (“mutchkin”), from Middle Dutch mutse (“mutch”), from Classical Latin modius ("peck; Roman dry measure"), from Proto-Indo-European root *med-.
Noun
mutchkin (plural mutchkins)
- (Scotland) A unit of fluid capacity approximately equal to three-quarters of an imperial pint (0.43 litres)
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
- Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle;
- Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle;
- An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle,
- Seizin a stell,
- Triumphant crushin't like a mussel,
- Or limpet shell!
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
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