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malkin - n., a woman who is old, untidy, or slatternly; a rabbit; a cat.
Grimalkin is from the last sense, with gray as prefix. Other senses include a mop made of rags and a scarecrow. Diminutive of either Maud or Molly (the dictionaries disagree) by way of Middle English slang for a servant woman.
---L.
Grimalkin is from the last sense, with gray as prefix. Other senses include a mop made of rags and a scarecrow. Diminutive of either Maud or Molly (the dictionaries disagree) by way of Middle English slang for a servant woman.
---L.
