English Dictionary: mawkish | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for mawkish | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See {Mawk}.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. --J. H. Newman. |