| 单词 | there are more maids than malkin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere are more maids than Malkin a. A typical name (usually derogatory) for: a lower-class, untidy, or sluttish woman, esp. a servant or country girl. In Scotland: an awkward or ungainly young girl. †Also in various proverbial expressions, esp. there are more maids than Malkin (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > woman malkinc1275 wenchc1574 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] > personal untidiness > woman slut1402 malkin1586 mawks1596 feague1664 gad1756 frow1781 streel1842 ragbag1854 α. β. 1564 J. Martiall Treat. Crosse iv. f. 67 A goodly reason by S. Mary, not much vnlieke to an old mother Maukyns talk.1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mad-cap (1626) B The Chuffe that sits and champes upon his chaffe May have his Mawkin kisse him like a mare.a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbv/2 Thou tookst me up at every word I spoke, As I had been a Mawkin, a flurt Gillian.1636 W. Camden Remaines (new ed.) 308 There's more maids than Maukin.1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 33 Her maukin knuckles were never shapen to that royall buskin.1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend i. i The dull heavy-tail'd maukin melts him down with her modesty.a1745 J. Swift Ballyspellin (Answ.) viii. in Wks. (1765) XIV. 231 Your mawkins there, smocks hempen wear.1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) ‘A lass and a maukin’, a maid-servant and a girl to assist her.1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 95 A draggled mawkin,..That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge.1899 Birmingham Daily Post 9 June in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) He called her a country mawkin.1928 J. Wight in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) Ye muckle myawkin, faur wis ye gyaan spangin yonner for (spoken to a long-limbed girl of ten)?c1275 Lutel Soth Serm. (Calig.) 54 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 188 Ne þeos prude ȝungemen Þat luuieþ malekin, And þeos prude maidenes Þat luuieþ Ianekin. c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 30 It wol nat come agayn..Namoore than wol Malkyns maydenhede, Whan she hath lost it in hir wantownesse. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. i. 158 Ȝe ne haue no more meryt..Þanne malkyn of hire maidenhed, þat no man desiriþ. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diiv Whan I wyld the any other where to go, Tushe, there were no mo maydens but malkyn tho. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 19v There are more howses then Parishe Churches, more maydes then Maulkin. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. ix. 36 Euen Carters Malkins wil disdaine when Gentrie will digest. 1602 N. Breton Wonders worth Hearing (Grosart) 8/2 Holding out her chinne and drawing in her mouth (lyke Malkins olde Mare). 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale To Rdr. sig. A4v None can iustly except at me, but some riotous vomiting Kit, or some Gentleman-swallowing Mol-kin. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 205 The Kitchin Malkin pinnes Her richest Lockram 'bout her reechie necke. View more context for this quotation 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox vi. 114 I should bee too long if I should relate in what manner those subtile Wits inveagled the simplicity of those silly Maulkins. For I haue heard these Court-Ladies allow Large pensions to their Paramors. 1762 London Mag. Apr. 205/1 Now monst'rous in hoop, now trapish, and walking With your petticoats clung to your heels, like a maulkin. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 7 Such an unsoutherly malkin. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 128 The swineherd's malkin. < as lemmas |
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