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Mawky vs Manky - What's the difference?

mawky | manky |

As adjectives the difference between mawky and manky

is that mawky is (northern england|appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots while manky is (british|scotland|ireland|slang) unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.

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

    manky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, Scotland, Ireland, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
  • * 2005 , Justin Peter Beaney, Kasdeja's Children ,
    • "He don't want those," his father said, holding a bag of apples at the end of an outstretched arm as if they were a danger to his health, "they're all... manky ."
  • * 2010 , Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky ,
    • "Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."