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单词 morkin
释义

morkin

See also: Morkin

English

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).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmoɹkɪn/, [ˈmo̞ɹkɪn]
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːkɪn/
  • (without the horsehoarse merger)
    • (rhotic) IPA(key): /mɔːɹkɪn/
    • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /mɔːkɪn/

Noun

morkin (plural morkins)

  1. (obsolete) An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
    • c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires
      Could hee[sic] not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, []

Anagrams

  • romkin
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