Crossword clues for mutchkin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mutchkin \Mutch"kin\, n. A liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint.
WordNet
n. a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint
Wikipedia
Disambiguation: a "mutchkin" can also refer a close-fitting Scottish cap.
The mutchkin was a Scottish unit of measurement of liquids that was in use from at least 1661, (possibly 15th century), until the late 19th century. The word was derived from mutse - a mid 15th-century Dutch measure of beer or wine. A mutchkin is equivalent to 424 ml.
- 1 mutchkin is four gills (Scots), equal to three imperial gills or three quarters of an imperial pint.
- 2 mutchkins is one chopin.
- 4 mutchkins is one pint (Scots) (or joug), equal to three imperial pints.
Usage examples of "mutchkin".
Tibbie Faw, and there puir Steenie cried for a mutchkin of brandy, for he had had no refreshment the haill day.
I hope some time before we hear the gowk, to have the pleasure of seeing you at Kilmarnock: when I intend we shall have a gill between us, in a mutchkin stoup.
But William Mutchkins himself was a respectable man, and no house could be better ordered than his change.
Mr Mutchkins and his pious family, was no longer held up to the imitation of the wayfaring man.
With the roistering in full swing, the patrons were ordering ale and cider in measures: pottles, noggins, tappit hens, mutchkins, and thirdendales.