Morkin
//ˈmoɹkɪn// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An animal that has died of disease or by mischance. obsolete
"Could hee^([sic]) not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]"
Example
More examples"Could hee^([sic]) not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]"
Etymology
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”).
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