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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Maggoty.

[Prov. Eng.]

Adj.

Maggoty. [Local.]

mawky ‎(comparative mawkier, superlative mawkiest)

(Northern England, Appalachia) maggoty, full of maggots.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.130:
  What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.