malkin

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More than half of New York's film critics actually cited Bass's black stalking malkin as far and away the best thing in Walk on the Wild Side.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most probable derivation of the word is, that malkin is a diminutive of mal, abbreviated from Mary, now commonly written Moll.

From Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The name malkin was transferred from the maid to the mop.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

As if this were not enough, malkin became the baker’s clout to clean ovens with.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

The cove's so scaly, he'd spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis