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Scots
Etymology
From Middle English mankid, past participle of manken (“to mutilate”), from Medieval Latin mancāre; equivalent to mank (“to mutilate”) + -it.
Adjective
mankit (comparative mair mankit, superlative maist mankit)
- Mutilated, maimed, disfigured.
- (Shetland) Exhausted.