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kɪʃ adjective
1.
characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
2.
having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | falsely sentimental, esp in a weak or maudlin way |
| 2. | nauseating or insipid in flavour, smell, etc |
| [C17: from obsolete mawk | |
| 'mawkishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'mawkishness | |
| —n | |
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is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
mawkish
1668, sickly, nauseated, from M.E. mawke "maggot" (see maggot). Sense of "sickly sentimental" is first recorded 1702.
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