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- noun An East Indian name for a tuskless elephant; strictly speaking, a tuskless male elephant, since the female Indian elephants seldom develop tusks.
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avivamagnolia commented on the word muckna
~ a naturally tuskless male elephant
~ spurless cock
January 18, 2009
avivamagnolia commented on the word muckna
Muckna, or Makhna in Hindu, which comes from the Sanskrit matkuna, 'a bug, flea, a beardless man, an elephant without tusks'.
c. 1780 - "An elephant born with left tooth only is reckoned sacred; with black spots in the mouth unlucky, and not saleable; the mukna or elephant born without teeth is thought the best."Shakespeare uses the the word as 'a cock without spurs.'
January 18, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word muckna
Also makhna, which see.
October 31, 2011