different between dawk vs mawk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Old English dalc (“pin”). More at dalk.

Verb

dawk (third-person singular simple present dawks, present participle dawking, simple past and past participle dawked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
2. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To dig up weeds.

Noun

dawk (plural dawks)

1. A hollow or crack in timber.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould

Etymology 2

Noun

dawk (plural dawks)

1. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”)

Maltese

Determiner

dawk pl

1. plural of dak

English

Etymology

From Middle English mawke, moke, a contraction of mathek, maddok, from Old Norse maðkr (“maggot”), a diminutive of a base from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (compare Old English maþa), from Proto-Indo-European *mat-, *mot- used in reference to insects and vermin. Cognate with Danish madike, Swedish mask, archaic English maddock (modern maggot).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

mawk (plural mawks)

1. (obsolete except in dialects) a maggot
2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) a slattern

Related terms

• mawkish
• mawky