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Mawky vs Mawks - What's the difference?

mawky | mawks |

As an adjective mawky

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

As a noun mawks is

or mawks can be (uk|dialect) a slattern; a mawk.

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

    mawks

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • hands

    • Noun

    (es)
  • (UK, dialect) A slattern; a mawk.
    • (Webster 1913)