• (British) IPA: /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈmɔd.lɪn/
  • (cot-caught) IPA: /ˈmɑd.lɪn/

maudlin (plural maudlins)

1. (obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1400, Nicholas Love (monk) (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ:

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2. (historical) Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow. [from 15th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 186:

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3. (obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel. [17th c.]

maudlin

1. Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness. [from 17th c.]
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

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   • 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 174215199 ↗, page 165 ↗:

     With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.

   • around 1900, O. Henry, The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball

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2. Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying. [from 17th c.]
   • 1961, CS Lewis, A Grief Observed

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3. (obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose. [17th-19th c.]

• (affectionately sentimental) mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, soupy, slushy
  • (drunk) See Thesaurus:drunk
• (excessively sentimental) emotional, overwrought, soppy
• (tearful) larmoyant, mournful, plaintful, teary, weepy; see also Thesaurus:sad

• French: histrionique, sentimental, pleurnicheur, maniéré, mièvre, affecté
• German: rührselig, selbstmitleidig
• Russian: сентиментальный
• Spanish: lloraduelos, amanerado, melindroso, remilgado

• French: larmoyant, démonstratif, hystérique, pleurnicheur
• German: larmoyant, verheult
• Italian: piagnucoloso, sdolcinato
• Russian: напившийся до состояния слезливого раскаяния
• Spanish: sensiblero, llorón, llorica

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