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Pawky vs Mawky - What's the difference?

pawky | mawky |

As adjectives the difference between pawky and mawky

is that pawky is shrewd, sly; often also as characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour while mawky is (northern england|appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots.

pawky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Shrewd, sly; often also as characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour.

    • 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