• (RP, America) IPA: /ɡɹɪˈmæl.kɪn/, /ɡɹɪˈmɔːl.kɪn/

grimalkin (plural grimalkins)

1. A cat, especially an elderly female.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗:

   • 1845 October – 1846 June​, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter III, in Wuthering Heights: A Novel, volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], published December 1847, OCLC 156123328 ↗, pages 61–62 ↗:

     Two benches, shaped in sections of a circle, nearly enclosed the hearth; on one of these I stretched myself, and Grimalkin mounted the other. […] He [Joseph] cast a sinister look at the little flame which I had enticed to play between the ribs, swept the cat from its elevation, and bestowing himself in the vacancy, commenced the operation of stuffing a three-inch pipe with tobacco; {{...}

2. (archaic) A bad-tempered old woman; a crone.

• (bad-tempered old woman) See Thesaurus:old woman

• Spanish: bruja