Mutchkin
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Disambiguation: a "mutchkin" can also refer a close-fitting Scottish cap.
The mutchkin (Scottish Gaelic: mùisgein) was a Scottish unit of measurement of liquids that was in use from at least 1661, (possibly 15th century), until the late 19th century. The word was derived from mutse - a mid 15th-century Dutch measure of beer or wine.[1] A mutchkin is equivalent to 424 ml.
- 1 mutchkin is four gills (Scots), equal to three imperial gills or three quarters of an imperial pint.
- 2 mutchkins is one chopin.
- 4 mutchkins is one pint (Scots) (or joug), equal to three imperial pints.[2]
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