English
Etymology
From mimmer + -kin. Cognate with Scots mimmerkin, memmerkin (“a dwarf, dwarfish creature”). Compare also mimmering (“doting, dreaming”).
Noun
mimmerkin (plural mimmerkins)
- (obsolete) 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.
- (obsolete, Scotland, dialectal) A deformed or freakish person; a dwarf or dwarfish creature.