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mawkish, a.|ˈmɔːkɪʃ|
Also 7–8 malkish, maukish.
[f. mawk n. + -ish1.]
†1. Inclined to sickness; without appetite. Obs.
1668Dryden Enem. Love iv. i, I feel my Stomach a little maukish. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Mawkish, sick at Stomack, squeamish. a1745Swift Progr. Marriage 60 The dean who us'd to dine at one, Is maukish, and his stomach gone. 1755Connoisseur No. 82 (1774) III. 83 He constantly goes senseless to bed, and rises maukish in the morning. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney II. 59 The feverish, heated, mawkish, wretched state in which I was.
†b. Having no inclination to. Obs.
1679Dryden Troil. & Cress. iv. ii, Who knows but rest may cool their brains, and make them rise mawkish to mischief upon consideration?
2. Having a nauseating taste; now, having a faint, sickly flavour with little definite taste.
a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. 215 The medicated Springs here..have a maukish Taste. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Wallowish, a malkish, ill Taste. a1719Addison Virg. Georg. iv. 117 Others look loathsom and diseas'd with sloth, Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat, and spits a maukish froth. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 171 Like thine inspirer, Beer,..So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 89 He regarded the ragouts of his other wives as entirely maukish. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 492 It is without smell, has a maukish taste, and has but little consistence. 1872Cooper's Dict. Pract. Surg. II. 643 Pus has a sweetish, mawkish taste.
3. fig. Feebly sentimental; imbued with sickly or false sentiment; lacking in robustness.
1702Eng. Theophrast. 110 It is one of the most nauseous maukish mortifications under the Sun..to have to do with a punctual finical fop. 1776Foote Bankrupt i. Wks. 1799 II. 104 His mind is so maukish, that should he be confronted with Lydia, he would betray our whole plot in an instant. 1818Keats Lett. Wks. 1889 III. 141, I hate a mawkish popularity. 1819Metropolis I. 47 The mawkish tepidity of his manner. 1885Spectator 8 Aug. 1048/2 The mawkish and unreal sentiment which constituted Mr. Dickens's chief fault. 1889D. Hannay Capt. Marryat viii. 125 It [Masterman Ready] is pathetic, and yet it is not mawkish.
†4. slang. Slatternly. Obs. rare—0.
1725New Cant. Dict., Mawkish, Slatternly. |