What does mawkish mean?
Definitions for mawkish
ˈmɔ kɪʃmawk·ish
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Princeton's WordNet
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushyadjective
effusively or insincerely emotional
"a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
GCIDE
Mawkishadjective
Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
Wiktionary
mawkishadjective
Feeling sick, queasy.
mawkishadjective
Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
mawkishadjective
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Mawkishadjective
Apt to give satiety; apt to cause loathing.
Etymology: perhaps from maw.
Flow, Welsted! flow, like thine inspirer beer,
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull. Alexander Pope.
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mawkish
Mawkish refers to being overly sentimental, emotional, or sappy in a way that is often perceived as insincere, exaggerated, and even slightly nauseating. It can also refer to having a sickly, unpleasant, or slightly nauseating taste or smell.
Webster Dictionary
Mawkishadjective
apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting
Mawkishadjective
easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious
Etymology: [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Mawkish
mawk′ish, adj. loathsome, disgusting, as anything beginning to breed mawks or maggots.—n. Mawk, a maggot.—adv. Mawk′ishly.—n. Mawk′ishness. [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.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mawkish in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mawkish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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