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merkin

noun
/ˈmɜːkɪn/

Etymology

First attested in 1617, probably a variant form of malkin, from Malde + -kin.

Definitions

  1. A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after…

    A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item.

  2. A mop for cleaning cannon.

  3. The male counterpart of a beard, a companion to a lesbian to feign her straightness.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An American.

      • For all you non-'merkins: Most 'merkins are idiots, just like the residents of your country. See, most people are idiots. We just have idiots with a higher average income than you do, so they can afford to be better cretins.
      • There is a brand of cheap, nasty aftershave over in Britain caller Que. About two quid a bottle and it's foul. Buy some and fly to Noo Yawk. Then sell it to a Murkin for forty bucks. Tell them it is Calvin Klein's British version.

    2. American.

      • [P]robably a merkin reference which it is expected that the rest of the world will understand?
      • it's got very merkin lately... too much time on the international circuit probly?
      • It is also very merkin (remember the cheese eating surrender monkeys?). Who in the UK yells, "assholes" at another driver? I can think of a lot of other words to yell but "assholes" isn't very UK-ish.

    3. A cannibalistic tribe native to the Cape York Peninsula.

      • A tribe known as the Merkins had a word, "talgoro" meaning "human-meat-waiting-to-be-taken"; what we would call a "marked man".

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA