How To Use mutchkin In A Sentence
- However he admitted him, and Worthington sent his son to buy a mutchkin of whisky costing two shillings, sending him first with a pound note and then, when no change was to be had, with silver.
- Westmoreland; and not liking to intrude on his family circle that evening, I sent a note up to Greta Hall, requesting him to come down and see me, and drink one half mutchkin along with me. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.
- Hieland sowens by Mr. Duncan MacDonought, the last minister, who began the morning duly, Sunday and Saturday, with a mutchkin of usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- Until the late 18th century, Scots liquid measures had colourful names like ` mutchkin’ and ` chopin’ (2 mutchkins).
- Jekyl of a mutchkin of Glenlivat, that both would fall by the first fire. Saint Ronan's Well
- He was a decorated war hero, but that didn't matter - he was still fined a half mutchkin of punch.
- Two half mutchkins of raw whisky were then called for and drunk between them.
- Roy Macdonald complied with the summons, taking with him a half mutchkin stoup full of whiskey. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
- Old Keltie, the landlord, who had bestowed his name on a bridge in the neighbourhood of his quondam dwelling, received the carrier with his usual festive cordiality, and adjourned with him into the house, under pretence of important business, which, I believe, consisted in their emptying together a mutchkin stoup of usquebaugh. The Abbot
- I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity, or whether some hope of gain mixed with it, but after Dick had sold several horses in this way, he began to complain that dry — bargains were unlucky, and to hint that since his chap must live in the neighbourhood, he ought, in the courtesy of dealing, to treat him to half a mutchkin. Waverley
