Puss vs Malkin - What's the difference?
puss | malkin |
(informal) A cat.
A girl or young woman.
(dated, hunting) A hare.
(vulgar, slang) Vulva (female genitalia).
(slang) The mouth.
* 1662 , (Henry More), , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 120:
(obsolete, nautical) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
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*: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 .
(Scotland, North England) A hare.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 158:
*:There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.
As nouns the difference between puss and malkin
is that puss is (informal) a cat or puss can be (slang) the mouth while malkin is .puss
English
Etymology 1
From a Common (etyl) word for cat. Akin to (etyl) , West Frisian (m), (etyl) (m), (m), Danish (m), dialectal (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Found also in several other European and Western Asian languages. Compare (etyl) (m).Noun
(es)- Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.
Synonyms
* (cat) moggie/moggyEtymology 2
Of (etyl) origin, from or akin to (etyl) .Noun
(es)- She gave him a slap in the puss .
Synonyms
* (mouth) cakehole, gob, mush, trapAnagrams
* ----malkin
English
Alternative forms
* maukin * maulkinNoun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- "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."