the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > napkin or serviette
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > bib to keep clothes clean
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > bib > for a child
1420 in A. H. Thomas (1943) IV. 74 (MED) Colerkerchefs..mokedours..volupers.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 594/29 Mamphora, mokedore.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 614/25 Sudarium, mokedore.
c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies ii. ii, in (1885) 8 177 A lynnyn moctour, wiþ þe whiche she wipte hir teres.
?a1475 (1922) 179 Goo hom lytyl babe and..put a mokador a-forn þi brest.
c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell (1840) 30 (MED) For eyen and nose the nedethe a mokadour Or sudary.
1530 J. Palsgrave 246/1 Mockendar for chyldre, movchover.
1552–3 H. Machyn (1848) 32 He gayff them shurts and smokes, and gyrdulls, and moketors.
1574 J. Baret B 576 A bibbe or mucketter.
1607 J. Marston ii. i Wipe your Nose: fie on your sleeue, where's your Muckender your Grand-mother gaue you?
1611 R. Cotgrave Baverette, a bib, mocket, or mocketer to put before the bosome of a (slauering) child.
a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iii. i, in (1640) III Be of good comfort; take my muckinder And dry thine eyes. View more context for this quotation
1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent (1893) ii. 261 Into our lap or on our knee was laid a muckender..to wipe your mouth and beard.
a1706 Earl of Dorset in (1793) VI. 509/2 For thy dull fancy a muckinder is fit To wipe the slabberings of thy snotty wit.
1791 H. Walpole 29 Sept. (1961) XXXI. 360 How I laughed at hearing of her throwing a second muckender to a Methusalem!
1815 W. H. Ireland 262 As for her [sc. Justice's] blinkers,..They've bound 'em up with muckinger.
1843 F. E. Paget 22 Shouldn't I tell mother to take the lace off her caps and stitch it round her muckingers?
1963 12 Feb. 11/4 Public usage of what the Elizabethans frankly called a muckender is neither sightly nor hygienic.