different between mawky vs macky

English

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.

macky (comparative more macky, superlative most macky)

(Britain, West Country, Bristol, slang) Large.
- Why is it such a special city? - Great people, a gert lush accent, and the city has great scenery with a gert macky Clifton Suspension Bridge.

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