- a cat; esp., an old female cat
- a malicious old woman
Origin of grimalkin
earlier gray malkin: see malkingrimalkin
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grimalkin
noun
A cat, especially an old female cat.
Origin of grimalkin
Variant of graymalkin gray 1obsolete malkin lower-class woman ; see merkin .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural grimalkins)
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