mutchkin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A unit of fluid capacity approximately equal to three-quarters of an imperial pint (0.43 litres) Scotland
    — Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or limpet shell!

词形变化

mutchkins plural

词源

From Middle Dutch mudseken (“mutchkin”), from mutse (“mutch”), from Classical Latin modius (“peck; Roman dry measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med-.
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