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mawkiest

mawkiest is the superlative 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 mawkiest

What is mawkiest the superlative form of?
Mawkiest is the superlative form of mawky.

Words near mawkiest in the dictionary

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

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