Meaning

3 senses

  1. (historical)Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow.

  2. (obsolete)The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.

  3. (obsolete)A Magdalene house; a brothel.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Spare me your maudlin life stories.

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  2. Tom always gets maudlin when he drinks.

    deTom wird immer weinerlich, wenn er Alkohol trinkt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Tom always gets maudlin when he's on the booze.

    deTom wird immer weinerlich, wenn er Alkohol trinkt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. She was downright maudlin over her broken drawing tablet; you'd think her pet had died.

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Origin

From Middle English Maudelen, a dialectal form of Mary Magdalene (typically depicted weepi

From Middle English Maudelen, a dialectal form of Mary Magdalene (typically depicted weeping), from Old French Madelaine (whence Madeleine), from Late Latin Magdalena (see Magdalena, Magdalene, and Maudlin).

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Forms

plural: maudlins
Singularmaudlin
Pluralmaudlins

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mattressmatureB2maturitymaulmausoleumB2mauve
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