• effusively or insincerely emotional


    mawkish meaning & definition 1 of mawkish.


  • Feeling sick, queasy.

    mawkish meaning & definition 2 of mawkish.


  • Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

    mawkish meaning & definition 3 of mawkish.


  • Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

    mawkish meaning & definition 4 of mawkish.


  • Apt to give satiety; apt to cause loathing.

    mawkish meaning & definition 5 of mawkish.


  • Mawkish refers to being overly sentimental, emotional, or sappy in a way that is often perceived as insincere, exaggerated, and even slightly nauseating. It can also refer to having a sickly, unpleasant, or slightly nauseating taste or smell.

    mawkish meaning & definition 6 of mawkish.


  • easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious

    mawkish meaning & definition 7 of mawkish.


  • mawk′ish, adj. loathsome, disgusting, as anything beginning to breed mawks or maggots.—n. Mawk, a maggot.—adv. Mawk′ishly.—n. Mawk′ishness. [Explained by Skeat as formed, with suffix -ish, from M. E. mawk, mauk, a contr. form of M. E. maðek, a maggot—Ice. maðkr, a maggot.]

    mawkish meaning & definition 8 of mawkish.


  • Weakly sentimental; maudlin.

    mawkish meaning & definition 9 of mawkish.

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