mawky
English
Etymology
mawk + -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɔːki]
- Rhymes: -ɔːki
Adjective
mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)
- (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.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.130:
Related terms
- mawk