English

Alternative forms

• mymmerkin

Noun

mimmerkin ‎(plural mimmerkins)

1. A dotard.
   • 1568 (1508), W. Kennedy, Flyting (Bannatyne) 29 in P. Bawcutt Poems of W. Dunbar (1998) I. 201:

     Mandrag, mymmerkin, maid maister bot in mows.

2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A deformed or freakish person; a dwarf or dwarfish creature.