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- noun Plural form of
mawkin .
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The havoc they make is sometimes so great, that whole orchards are laid waste in spite of all the noises that can be made, or mawkins that can be dressed up, to fright them away.
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Roman conversations are dreadful things! such untoward mawkins as the princesses! and the princes are worse.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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