mawking

[Eng.mawk; -ing.] Slatternly. *mawk'-ing-ly, adv. & a. [Eng. mawking; -ly.] A. As adv.: In a slatternly manner. B. As adj .: Slatternly, tastele , disgusting. "To place much piety in their mawkingly plainne ." -Bp. Taylor: Artificial Handsomene , p. 37. mâwk'-Ish, *mâuk'-Ish, a. [Eng. mawk; -ish.j 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; sickly, nau Beous. "Like a faint traveler whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat, and spits a maukish froth." Add is on Virgil ; Georgic iv. 2. Sick at stomach, squeamish. mâwk'-Ish-lý, adv. [Eng. mawkish; -ly.] In a mawkish manner; so as to cause satiety and loath ing.