morkin

Probably from mort +‎ -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɹkɪn/, [ˈmo̞ɹkɪn]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːkɪn/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːɹkɪn/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːkɪn/

morkin (plural morkins)

1. (obsolete) An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
   • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:

     Could hee^[sic] not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]

• romkin