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Mawk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A maggot; a slattern. [Not in use.]

Mawk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A maggot.

2. A slattern; a mawks.

Mawkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Malkin, and Maukin.

Mawkingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Slatternly; sluttishly.

Mawkingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mawkish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Apt to cause satiety or lothing.

2. So sweetly mawkish and so smoothly dull.

Mawkish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.

Mawkishly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a mawkish way.

Mawkishness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Aptness to cause lothing.

Mawkishness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being mawkish.

Mawks [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A slattern; a mawk.

Mawky [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Maggoty. [Local.]

Mawky [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913