malkin

noun

1. (archaic, regional)A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

   “Ȝe ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth. You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than Malkin from her maidenhood, which no man desires.”

   “We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]”

2. (regional)A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.

   “"She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one Peter Grospetter, whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his Maulkin (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath."”

3. (obsolete)A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
4. (archaic, regional)A scarecrow.

   “[A] straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.]”

5. (archaic)A cat.

   “Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her malkins.”

6. (Northern-England, Scotland)A hare.

   “There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.”

name

1. A surname transferred from the given name.

   “Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a group that promotes conservatism on college campuses, has kicked one of its prominent speakers, Michelle Malkin, to the curb. […] YAF did exactly the right thing by disassociating itself from Malkin for coming to Fuentes’ defense.”