mutchkin

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

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

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