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malky

English

Verb

malky (third-person singular simple present malkies, present participle malkying, simple past and past participle malkied)

  1. (Scotland, slang) To physically assault.
  2. (Scotland, slang) To murder.

Noun

malky (plural malkies)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A beating.
    Oota ma coupon afore ah gies y' the malky, ya bam.
  2. (Scotland, slang) A murder.

See also

  • chib

References

  • Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

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mawky

English

Etymology

From mawk +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [m??ki]
    Rhymes: -??ki

Adjective

mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)

  1. (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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  • mawk

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