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[maw-kish] 
kɪʃ
–adjective
| 1. | characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. |
| 2. | having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating. |
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| mawk·ish (mô'kĭsh) adj.
[From Middle English mawke, maggot, variant of magot; see maggot.] mawk'ish·ly adv., mawk'ish·ness n. |
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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.
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mawkish
1668, sickly, nauseated, from M.E. mawke "maggot" (see maggot). Sense of "sickly sentimental" is first recorded 1702.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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