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mawkish |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mawkish \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mawkish adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {maudlin}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {slushy}]
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