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mawkin

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mawkin [ˈmɔːkɪn]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant of malkin
2. Brit dialect
a.  a slovenly woman
b.  a scarecrow


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And you, as have been here ever since last Michaelmas, and I hired you at Treddles'on stattits, without a bit o' character--as I say, you might be grateful to be hired in that way to a respectable place; and you knew no more o' what belongs to work when you come here than the mawkin i' the field.
 
 
 
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