different between hawky vs mawky

English

hawk +? -y

hawky (comparative more hawky, superlative most hawky)

Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.
- 1963, D'Arcy Niland, The shiralee
  He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind.

From mawk +? -y.

mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)

(Northern England, Appalachia) Maggoty, full of maggots.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 130:
  What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.

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