mawky en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- [mɔːki]
Etymology
From mawk + -y.
Meanings
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(Appalachia, Northern-England) Maggoty, full of maggots.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mawkier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| mawkiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |