mawky

adj
/mɔːki/

Etymology

From mawk + -y.

  1. derived from *mat-
  2. derived from *maþô
  3. derived from maðkr
  4. inherited from mawke
  5. suffixed as mawky — “mawk + y

Definitions

  1. Maggoty, 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mawky. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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