mutchkin
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mutchkin
a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint
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Mutchkin
A liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint.
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mutchkin
A liquid measure in Scotland, containing four gills, and forming the fourth part of a Scotch pint.
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Mutchkin
much′kin a Scottish liquid measure of four gills, or forming one-fourth of a Scottish pint.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Scot. mutch, a cap, kin, little.
And I'se gie ye a mutchkin mysell, man, if I can settle weel wi' Christy Wilson. "The Black Dwarf" by
Jist gang an' fess a mutchkin mair. "Robert Falconer" by
MUTCHKIN, a measure equal to about three quarters of an imperial pint. "Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete" by
Godsake, woman, let me away; there's saxpence t' ye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o' clavering about thae auld-warld stories. "Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated" by
Mutchkin, a measure equal to an English pint. "St. Ronan's Well" by
Roy Macdonald complied with the summons, taking with him a half mutchkin stoup full of whiskey. "Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745" by
He uncorked his mutchkin and drank it like water. "The House with the Green Shutters" by
Two half mutchkins, I say. "Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2" by
Mutchkin was unquestionably a shrewd fellow, although he did his best to darken the light with which nature had endowned him. "A Book about Doctors" by
AND FORBYE YE GOT A HALF-MUTCHKIN AWA' WI' YE LAST NICHT (AFTER HOORS TAE); IT CANNA BE A' DUNE YET! "Our People" by
Wha kills a' our care,
Wi' his sang an' his joke
And a mutchkin mair;
Noo that her mutchkin stoup was dry—
For meal pocks toom, an' aumries bare,
An' starvin' bairnie's waefu' cry.
But gi'e that bell anither ring.
Talkin's dry wark, an'—let me see—
Half mutchkin? Ay, bring that to me,
I'll pay my way as lang's I'm able"—
An' banged a shillin' on the table.