different between maggoty vs mawky

English

maggot +? -y.

maggoty (comparative more maggoty, superlative most maggoty)

(literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
(obsolete) Full of whims; capricious.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Norris to this entry?)

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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