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[Adjective] | "mawk*ish" | \ ˈmȯ-kish \
1: lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste
2: exaggeratedly or childishly emotional
Origin: circa 1697 ;
Middle English mawke maggot, probably from Old Norse mathkr{mat|maggot|};
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[Noun] | "mawkishness"
1: the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion);
* e.g., " ... the grating mawkishness of her poetry makes me want to stamp on wildflowers "
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[Adjective] | "mawkish"
1: appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way;
* e.g., " ... a mawkish plea for donations to the charity "
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[ "mawkish" ]
1: Why are you searching up vocabulary words?
In all seriousness, mawkish is an adjective meaning "excessively sentimental." It's usually said in a negative way, like someone who is weird and can't control their feelings.
* e.g., ... Billy: My grandma just passed away. *starts sobbing*
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[ "mawkish" ]
1: Mawkish means excessive sentimentality or a unhealthy fascination with death or tragedy.
Comes from the old English word 'maggot' and originally meant “sickly or nauseated' But mawkish eventually evolved to mean something so overly sentimental it makes you sick.
Nowadays it has come to mean those who have a fascination and a joy in tragedy and bereavement and enjoy placing flowers on celebrity or national tragedy grave sites or monuments even though you have no connection to them family wise or friend wise.
* e.g., ... She just placed a bunch of flowers on that strangers grave site just cause she saw it on Facebook that is so mawkish!
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