Definition of "malkin" [mal•kin]

• A lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern (noun)
• A cat (noun)
• A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven. (noun)
• A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon. (noun)
• A scarecrow. (noun)

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• "What did I tell you the first time you came back from the Hospital looking like a malkin, and with a clean shift of clothes laid out for you and the water on the boil, that I couldn't have taken more trouble, no, not for a funeral?"
• "'Thee looks like a gurt malkin' is a common term of reproach among the poor folk -- meaning a bunch of rags on the end of a stick."
• "The wood embers were raked out with the scraper, and the malkin, being wetted, cleaned out the ashes."