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morkin

UK/ˈmɔːkɪn/US/ˈmoɹkɪn/

morkin noun: an animal that has died of disease or by mischance.

Noun

morkin (plural morkins)

  1. (obsolete) An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
    • Could hee^([sic]) not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Forms of morkin

pluralmorkins

Origin of morkin

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”).

Questions about morkin

What does morkin mean?
Morkin means an animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
What part of speech is morkin?
Morkin is a noun.
How do you pronounce morkin?
Morkin is pronounced /ˈmoɹkɪn/ (US).
What is the plural of morkin?
The plural of morkin is morkins.

Words near morkin in the dictionary

  1. Mork
  2. Morken
  3. Morkens
  4. morkie
  5. morkies
  6. morkin
  7. morkins
  8. morkovcha
  9. morkovchas
  10. Morkrum
  11. Morkrums

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