mawky
adj[mɔːki]
Etymology From mawk + -y.
1
Appalachia, Northern England Maggoty, full of maggots.
- 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, page 130:
- Related terms
- mawk