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mutchkin

mutch·kin

uncommon

noun

1.

a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint

Origin

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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