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mawkish (encz) | mawkish,falešně sentimentální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
mawkishly (encz) | mawkishly, |
mawkishness (encz) | mawkishness,falešná sentimentálnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
mollymawk (encz) | mollymawk, n: |
Mawk (gcide) | Mawk \Mawk\ (m[add]k), n. [OE. mauk, ma[eth]ek, Icel. ma[eth]kr;
akin to Dan. maddik, and E. mad an earthworm. See Mad, n.]
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1. A maggot. [Scot.]
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2. A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]
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Mawkin (gcide) | Mawkin \Maw"kin\, n.
See Malkin, and Maukin.
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Mawkingly (gcide) | Mawkingly \Mawk"ing*ly\, adv.
Slatternly. [Obs.]
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Mawkish (gcide) | Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]
1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly
nauseating; disgusting.
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So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
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2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
--J. H. Newman.
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3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
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Mawkishly (gcide) | Mawkishly \Mawk"ish*ly\, adv.
In a mawkish way.
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Mawkishness (gcide) | Mawkishness \Mawk"ish*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.
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Mawks (gcide) | Mawks \Mawks\, n.
A slattern; a mawk. [Prov. Eng.]
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Mawky (gcide) | Mawky \Mawk"y\, a.
Maggoty. [Prov. Eng.]
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mollymawk (gcide) | Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L.
gluto, glutto. See Glut.]
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1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
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2. Fig.: One who gluts himself.
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Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville.
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3. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly {Gulo
luscus}), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the
size of a large badger; called also wolverine,
wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be
inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of
the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
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Glutton bird (Zool.), the giant fulmar ({Ossifraga
gigantea}); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and
mollymawk.
[1913 Webster]Mollemoke \Mol"le*moke`\, n. [Sw. mallemucke the stormy petrel.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and
fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and
several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See
Fulmar. [Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock,
mallemocke, etc.]
[1913 Webster]Molly-mawk \Mol"ly-mawk`\, n. (Zool.)
See Mollemoke.
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Molly-mawk (gcide) | Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L.
gluto, glutto. See Glut.]
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1. One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
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2. Fig.: One who gluts himself.
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Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville.
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3. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly {Gulo
luscus}), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the
size of a large badger; called also wolverine,
wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be
inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of
the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
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Glutton bird (Zool.), the giant fulmar ({Ossifraga
gigantea}); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and
mollymawk.
[1913 Webster]Mollemoke \Mol"le*moke`\, n. [Sw. mallemucke the stormy petrel.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and
fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and
several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See
Fulmar. [Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock,
mallemocke, etc.]
[1913 Webster]Molly-mawk \Mol"ly-mawk`\, n. (Zool.)
See Mollemoke.
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mawkish (wn) | mawkish
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy,
sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] |
mawkishly (wn) | mawkishly
adv 1: in a mawkish and emotional manner; "the violinist played
that piece mawkishly" [syn: mawkishly, drippily] |
mawkishness (wn) | mawkishness
n 1: insincere pathos [syn: mawkishness, bathos]
2: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness,
sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness,
sloppiness] |
mollymawk (wn) | mollymawk
n 1: large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having
long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight [syn:
albatross, mollymawk] |
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