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mimmerkin

noun

Etymology

From mimmer + -kin. Cognate with Scots mimmerkin, memmerkin (“a dwarf, dwarfish creature”). Compare also mimmering (“doting, dreaming”).

  1. inherited from mymerian
  2. derived from mimmeren
  3. suffixed as mimmerkin — “mimmer + kin”

Definitions

  1. A deformed or freakish person

    A deformed or freakish person; a dwarf or dwarfish creature.

    • 'So it's your problem, no mine, if the wee mimmerkin's run,' he added, wiping his hand on his jerkin. 'Get a move on, man, Iw ant to get a hold of Bernard Stewart before he takes refuge the wrong side of that wall.'
    • 'A mimmerkin. A dwarf.' 'I am not a dwarf.' Maude Benet had been stern. Sometimes even sharp. But she had not called folk names. Elspet had telt him, as Maude would have done. And he had laughed at her.

The neighborhood

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