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.
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