Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal variant of
mawk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A slattern; a mawk.
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- noun Plural form of
mawk . - noun
hands - noun UK, dialect A
slattern ; amawk .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He still nursed his grievances, for pet grievances are not yet included in the tax on luxuries, but these were no longer suffragettes and lawyers, but slugs, "mawks," and
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March 18, 2008 at 3:27 am nope. me neever. wut? doaz blak mawks on da seelin? oh, um, dat wuz mai uttemp at mawdurn art. yoo doan lyke it?
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If by any chance these animals are suffered to accompany the meat to the safe or larder, in the course of twenty-four hours the small white mawks increase to the length of one-eighth of an inch, and are found crawling in hundreds and moving about, as you have observed the yellow flies buzzing over the old and rotten carcass of a horse that has been exposed for weeks.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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Before the joint had been ten minutes upon the table, small white mawks were moving upon the surface of the meat in considerable numbers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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From latitudes 60 to 63 degrees we saw a fair number of birds: southern fulmars, whale birds, molly-mawks, sooty albatrosses, and occasionally
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"T 'god o' flies taks out his book an 'begins to read t' list: 'Five hunderd mawks, three hunderd atter-cops, two hunderd an' fifty bummle-bees. '
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