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Maggoty vs Mawky - What's the difference?

maggoty | mawky |

As adjectives the difference between maggoty and mawky

is that maggoty is infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown while mawky is maggoty, full of maggots.

maggoty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
  • (obsolete) Full of whims; capricious.

    • Derived terms

    * maggotiness

    Synonyms

    * flyblown * maggotish (obsolete) * worm-eaten

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    mawky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Northern England, Appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.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.

    Related terms

    *mawk