mawky
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: [mɔːki]
mawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)
- (Northern England, Appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.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.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.130:
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