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adjectivemawky (comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)
comparative mawkier · superlative mawkiest
- AppalachiaNorthern EnglandMaggoty, 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
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