mawky
mawky · mawkier · mawkiest
Maggoty, full of maggotsMaggoty, full of maggots.
Meaning
1 senses(Appalachia, Northern England)Maggoty, full of maggots.
Origin
From mawk + -y.From mawk + -y.
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Forms
mawkier, mawkiestWord family
1 related wordsRelatedmawk
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.