1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Malingeror. A military term for one who, under pretence of sickness, evades his duty.
Malkin (Maukin or Mawkin), subs.
(old).—1. Originally (Johnson) a
kitchen-wench (Moll for Mary +
kin). Hence, a dish-clout; a scarecrow;
a wisp: and so, a slattern.
1579. Gosson, Schoole of Abuse, p. 37 (Arber). There are more houses then Parishe Churches, more maydes then maulkin, more wayes to the woode than one.
1596. Nashe, Have With You etc. [Grosart, iii. 169]. He makes a maulkin and a shoo-clout of her.
1606. Dekker, Newes from Hell [Grosart, ii. 130]. Filthyer than a Baker's mawkin that hee sweeps his ouen with.
1610. Shakspeare, Coriol., ii. 1. The kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram round her reechy neck.
1629. Davenant, Albovine, iv. 'Las poor maulkin! she's caught.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Malkin or maukin, a Scare-crow, Drest and Set up to fright the birds. . . . Hence malkin-trash, for one in a rueful Dress, enough to fright one. There are more Maids than malkins. Mawks, the same abbreviated. Mawkish, a Wallowish, ill Tast.
1693. Congreve, Old Bachelor, iii. 2. Thou maukin, made up of the shreds and parings of his superfluous fopperies.
1728. Swift, Ballyspellin (Answer), [Chalmers, English Poets, xi. 525]. Your mawkins there smocks hempen wear. Of holland not an ell in.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1847-50. Tennyson, Princess, v. 25. Or a draggled mawkin, thou.
1872. Gardener's Chronicle, 22 Nov. Our old friend of the hat and coat all stuffed with straw (in some districts called a mawkin) is in nine cases out of ten useless.
2. (Scots').—A hare; also (old) a cat.
1787. Burns, Tam Samson's Elegy. Ye maukins, cock your fuds fu' braw.
3. (Scots').—The female pudendum: i.e., pussie (q.v.). Also rouch-mawkin.
1540. Lyndsay, Thrie Estaitis, line 1924. And ye Ladies, that list to pisch, Lift up your taill plat in ane disch; And gif that your mawkine cryis quhisch, Stap in ane wusp of strae.
Malkin-trash, subs. (old).—See
quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Malkin-trash. One in dismal garb.
Malmsey-nose, subs. (old).—See
quot. Cf. Grog-blossom.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Malmsey-nose. A red-pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.
Malt, verb. (common).—To drink
beer.
1828-45. T. Hood, Poems, i. p. 148 (ed. 1846). She drank nothing lower than Curaçoa, Maraschino, or pink Noyau, And on principle never malted.
1835. Marryat, Jacob Faithful, xxii. Well, for my part I malt.
To have the malt above the wheat (water, or meal), verb. phr. (Scots' colloquial).—To be drunk. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.
1767. Ray, Proverbs [Bohn (1893), 63]. 'Proverbial Periphrases of one Drunk', The malt is above the water.
1816. Scott, Old Mortality, iv. Aweel,—when the malt begins to get aboon the meal . . . then Jenny, they're like to quarrel.
Maltooling, subs. (thieves').—See
quot. Cf. Molltooler.
1862. H. Mayhew, Lon. Lab. & Lon. Poor, iv. 324. Which she does by shoplifting, and picking pockets in omnibuses, the latter being termed maltooling.
Maltout, subs. (old).—See quot.
