Mawky vs Mawkish - What's the difference?
mawky | mawkish |
(Northern England, Appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.130:
Feeling sick, queasy.
(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
* 2014 August 11, , "
As adjectives the difference between mawky and mawkish
is that mawky is (northern england|appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots while mawkish is feeling sick, queasy.mawky
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Adjective
(er)- 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.
mawkish
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Alternative forms
* maukish (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
- Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.