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Malky vs Mawky - What's the difference?

malky | mawky |

As a verb malky

is (scotland|slang) to physically assault.

As a noun malky

is (scotland|slang) a beating.

As an adjective mawky is

(northern england|appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots.

malky

English

Verb

  • (Scotland, slang) To physically assault.
  • (Scotland, slang) To murder.

    • Noun

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

    • See also

    * chib

    References

    * Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

    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