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grimalkin
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A grimalkin (also called a greymalkin ) is an archaic term for a cat . The term stems from "grey" (the colour) plus "malkin", an archaic term with several meanings (a cat, a low class woman, a weakling, a mop or a name) derived from a hypocoristic form ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grimalkin \Gri*mal"kin\, n. [For graymalkin; gray + malkin.] An old cat, especially a she-cat. --J. Philips. A bad-tempered old woman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, name given to a cat (as in, or from, Shakespeare's Gray-Malkin , in "Macbeth," 1605), hence any cat, especially an old she-cat; from gray + Malkin , diminutive of fem. proper name Matilda or Maud .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cat, especially an elderly female. 2 (context archaic English) An old, bad-tempered woman; a crone.
Usage examples of grimalkin.
Grimalkin froze the lot of them, turning them all temporarily Solid, and used his own tractor beam to extract the chrysoberyls from the war memorial.
Fortunately, after traveling with Grimalkin for what would have been several years in linear time, he was familiar with the workings of this sort of device.
Around it, making messes of the food, goblins and grimalkins played leapfrog and danced impudent and vulgar dances, rubbing their fat bellies.
Grimalkin had no trouble shifting his own shape, or that of certain other things, but after he saw the reception Rafik got from the sulfurians he decided that he'd do better to stay off the surface of the planet, if possible.