mawk

noun
/mɔːk/

Etymology

From Middle English mawke, moke, a contraction of mathek, maddok, from Old Norse maðkr (“maggot”), a diminutive of a base from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (compare Old English maþa), from Proto-Indo-European *mat-, *mot- used in reference to insects and vermin. Cognate with Danish maddike, Swedish mask, archaic English maddock (modern maggot).

  1. derived from *mat-
  2. derived from *maþô
  3. derived from maðkr
  4. inherited from mawke

Definitions

  1. A maggot.

  2. A slattern.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA