10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAWKY»
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Hence (I) Maukiness, sb. the state of being full of maggots; (2) Mawket, p 1. adj.
infested with maggots; (3) Mawky, adj. (a) full 0 maggots; (b)_dirty; white and
sickly-looking; (4) -fly, sb. the bluebottle, Musca vomitoria. (1) Se. (jam) (2) Gall.
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The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete ...
Bwk. Mawky kail, HENDERSON Pop. Rhymes (1856) 83. n.Cy. GROSE (1790) ;
N.Cy.1 Nhb. The taties'll then hev ne disease, Then i linr'l! be ne mawky cheese,
BAGNALL Sngs. (c. 1850) ai ; Nhb.1 ' A maaky salmon,' an unclean salmon. u.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
233. Bwk. l\lawky kail, Hrnornsox Pop. R/Lrnlcs (1856) 83. n.Cy. Gnose (1790); N.
Cy.' Nhh. The taties'll then hev ne disease, Then thur'll be no mawky cheese,
BAGNALL Sllgs. (c. 18501 21; th.' ' A 111aak_\' salmon,' an unclean salmon. n.
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
a. s. = MAWKY 1: “A mawkit sheep.” MAWKY, a. N—w. I. Infested with maggots: “
A mawky sheep.” 2. M awky fly, flei, the blue-bottle or blow—fly. IMAWS, sb. pl.
Rxb., NE; Brotherston 39. Species or plants of mallows or Malva. [med. Sc. and E.
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A glossary of Berkshire words and phrases
Must not. " A zes I maunt go to Vaair athout I works awvertime vor a we-uk
avoorhand." MAWKIN. — An implement for cleaning out the oven. MAWKISH.—
Flat to the taste. MAWKY. — A woman who is very dowdy and ungainly in
appearance is ...
Barzillai Lowsley, English Dialect Society, Job Lowsley, 1888
MATWELL CARR, in Ecclesall, anno 1807. MAUNDER, v. to mutter. MAUNDREL,
sb. a heavy pickaxe, sharpened at each end, and used by miners for cutting
through stone. MAW-BOUND, gorged. Said of animals. MAWKY, adj. maggoty,
full ...
English Dialect Society, 1888
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A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of ...
Maw [mau-], the stomach. ' Ah can't eeat nl mare, ml maw's ommost brussen.'
Mawk [mau-k], a maggot. Mawkin [nuurkin], a scarecrow. Mawkish [mau-kish], adj
. feeling slightly indisposed. Mawky [mau-ki], adj. (1) maggoty, as ' mawky cheese
.
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A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield
MAUNDER, v. to mutter. MAUNDREL, sb. a heavy pickaxe, sharpened at each
end, and used by miners for cutting through stone. MAW-BOUND, gorged. Said of
animals. MAWKY, adi. maggoty, full of maggots. Bad cheese is said to be mawky.
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A glossary of words used in south-west Lincolnshire: ...
MAUL, or MALL, 5. — The common Mallow, Malva sylvestris, the seeds of which
are eaten by children, and called Cheeses by them. MAWK, s.—A maggot.
MAWKY, adj. — Maggotty: as " The sheep are all mawky;" or " They're full of
mawks.
Robert Eden George Cole, 1886
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Rat-tat Papers; or, tales told by a Postman [G. S.]
Zingra busied herself in her household duties, assisted by Billy Bosom when he
could spare a minute to attend to her wants. Elkanah, Patter Lee, and Mawky
Richardson sat on a large block of granite smoking their pipes. They did not
dream ...
George STRAHAN (pseud.?.), 1867
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAWKY»
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Live-blogging the 2014 MTV Movie Awards
7:42: "C'mawwwn. Wheeere's the 'Mawky Mawk' stuff? Where is it, Dickie?" -- Melissa Leo in "The Fighter" complaining about Mark Wahlberg's ... «HitFix, Apr 14»
Jerome's Evita waits in the wings
“'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' is for me, actually the most boring song in the whole thing, it's a mawky melody. I'm treating it in a different way – I ... «The Sunday Times Sri Lanka, Aug 12»
Recalling the shoe-pounding Khrushchev's surreal US visit
Forget mawky "uplifting," creaky "neo-Gothic," unfunny "humorous," "luminous" meanderings by the Yaddo crowd, and grant-funded "fresh new ... «Boston Globe, May 09»
