Mimmerkin

Alternative forms

• mymmerkin

Origin

From mimmer + -kin. Cognate with Scots mimmerkin, memmerkin ("a dwarf, dwarfish creature"). Compare also mimmering ("doting, dreaming").

Full definition of mimmerkin

Noun

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