English Explanatory Dictionary

mutchkin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit of fluid capacity approximately equal to three-quarters of an imperial pint (0.43 litres)

Word forms

mutchkin mutchkins

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mudseken (“mutchkin”), from mutse (“mutch”), from Classical Latin modius (“peck; Roman dry measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

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