Mutchkin
Disambiguation: a "mutchkin" can also refer a close-fitting Scottish cap.
The mutchkin was a Scottish unit of liquid volume measurement that was in use from at least 1661 until the late 19th century, approximately equivalent to 424 mL, or roughly imperial pint. The word was derived from mutse – a mid 15th-century Dutch measure of beer or wine.
- A mutchkin could be subdivided into four Scottish gills – this was roughly equivalent to three imperial gills or three-quarters of an imperial pint.
- Two mutchkins made one chopin.
- Four mutchkins made one Scottish pint, roughly equivalent to three imperial pints.