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mawkier

mawkier is the comparative form of mawky.

Meaning of mawky

Adjective

mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)

  1. (Appalachia, Northern England) Maggoty, full of maggots.
    • 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, page 130

Questions about mawkier

What is mawkier the comparative form of?
Mawkier is the comparative form of mawky.

Words near mawkier in the dictionary

  1. Mawhood
  2. Mawhoods
  3. mawk
  4. Mawken
  5. Mawkens
  6. mawkier
  7. mawkiest
  8. mawkin
  9. mawkins
  10. mawkish
  11. mawkishly

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