maudlin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: maudlin	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for maudlin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maudlin adj effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" Synonym(s): bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.] 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. [bd]Maudlin eyes.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Maudlin eloquence.[b8] --Roscommon. [bd]A maudlin poetess.[b8] --Pope. [bd]Maudlin crowd.[b8] --Southey. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.