Mawky

/[mɔːki]/ adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Maggoty, full of maggots. Appalachia, Northern-England

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From mawk + -y.

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