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mawky

[mɔːki]

mawky adjective: maggoty, full of maggots.

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

Forms of mawky

comparativemawkier
superlativemawkiest

Origin of mawky

From mawk + -y.

Words that rhyme with mawky

Questions about mawky

What does mawky mean?
Mawky means maggoty, full of maggots.
What part of speech is mawky?
Mawky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce mawky?
Mawky is pronounced [mɔːki].

Words near mawky in the dictionary

  1. mawkish
  2. mawkishly
  3. mawkishness
  4. mawkishnesses
  5. mawks
  6. mawky
  7. mawla
  8. Mawlamyaing
  9. Mawlamyine
  10. mawlas
  11. mawle

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