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grimalkin

[ gri-mal-kin, -mawl- ]

noun

  1. a cat.
  2. an old female cat.
  3. an ill-tempered old woman.


grimalkin

/ É¡rɪˈmælkɪn; -ˈmÉ”Ël- /

noun

  1. an old cat, esp an old female cat
  2. a crotchety or shrewish old woman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of grimalkin1

1595–1605; apparently alteration of gray 1 + malkin, diminutive of Maud proper name; -kin
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of grimalkin1

C17: from grey + malkin
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Pharmaceutical manufacturing is a lot like cooking a recipe that must turn out perfect each time, said Rebecca Sheets, a regulatory expert and consultant at Grimalkin Partners, a firm that provides advice to the vaccine and biologics industry.

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When Lynch first began to publish poetry — “Grimalkin & Other Poems†is his most recent collection — his father asked when he intended to write a book about funerals.

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His influence may in fact have reached William Shakespeare, who might have named the witches’ cat in Macbeth – Grimalkin – after one of Baldwin’s cats who appears decades earlier.

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Grimalkin never could annoy thee.

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Christopher’s cat lifted his head lazily, widened his eyes, and stared at Grimalkin.

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