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.
© Webster 1913.
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