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mawkish(dictionary)

mawkish (iou)



mawkish adjective. M17.
[from MAWK + -ISH1.]
Inclined to sickness; without appetite. obsolete exc. dial. M17.
Having a nauseating, sickly, or insipid taste. L17.
P. V. White She reached out for the..barley water..and tried to find comfort in..that mawkish stuff.
Feebly sentimental; imbued with sickly or false sentiment. E18.
C. P. Snow Dickens made a mawkish cult of Mary Hogarth, and idolised her.
mawkishly adverb M18.
mawkishness noun E18.