morkin

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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/,
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːkɪn/
(without the horse–hoarse merger)
- (rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːɹkɪn/
- (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːkɪn/

Noun

morkin (plural morkins)

(obsolete) An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
- c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:
  Could hee not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]

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