morkin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɔːkɪn/    美 /ˈmoɹkɪn/|[ˈmo̞ɹkɪn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal that has died of disease or by mischance. obsolete
    — Could hee^([sic]) not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]

词形变化

morkins plural

词源

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”).
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