different between mawky vs mawks
mawky
English
Etymology
From mawk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m??ki]
- Rhymes: -??ki
Adjective
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.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 130:
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- mawk
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mawks
English
Noun
mawks
- plural of mawk
- hands
Noun
mawks (plural mawkses)
- (Britain, dialect) A slattern; a mawk.
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