Mawkish

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 63

mawk′ish, adj. loathsome, disgusting, as anything beginning to breed mawks or maggots.— n. Mawk , a maggot.— adv. Mawk′ishly .— n. Mawk′ishne . [Explained by Skeat as formed, with suffix -ish , from M. E. mawk , mauk , a contr. form of M. E. maðek , a maggot—Ice. maðkr , a maggot.]