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mutchkins

mutchkins is the plural of mutchkin.

Meaning of mutchkin

Noun

mutchkin (plural mutchkins)

  1. (Scotland) A unit of fluid capacity approximately equal to three-quarters of an imperial pint (0.43 litres)
    • 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

Questions about mutchkins

What is mutchkins the plural of?
Mutchkins is the plural of mutchkin.

Words near mutchkins in the dictionary

  1. Mutazilites
  2. MUTCD
  3. mutch
  4. mutches
  5. mutchkin
  6. mutchkins
  7. Mutchler
  8. Mutchlers
  9. mute
  10. mute as a mouse
  11. mute cancel

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