mawky

English

Etymology

From mawk +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɔːki]

  Rhymes: -ɔːki

Adjective

mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)

1. (Northern England, Lincolnshire, Appalachia) Maggoty, full of maggots.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 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