MAWKISH DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
mawkish adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) mawkish adjective Etymology: Middle English mawke maggot, probably from Old Norse mathkr — more at maggot Date: circa 1697 1. having an insipid often unpleasant taste 2. sickly or puerilely sentimental • mawkishly adverb • mawkishness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary mawkish You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending. = soppy ADJ [disapproval] English Explanatory Dictionary mawkish ˈmɔ:kɪʃ adj. 1 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. 2 having a faint sickly flavour. øømawkishly adv. mawkishness n. [obs. mawk maggot f. ON mathkr f. Gmc] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. --J. H. Newman. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms mawkish a. Insipid, flat, vapid, tasteless, stale, sickly, nauseous, disgusting. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 56 Moby Thesaurus words for "mawkish": bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, luscious, maggoty, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious, offensive, overripe, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening, sickly-sweet, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spoiled, sticky, tears, teary, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky |
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