English-Thai Dictionary

mawkish

ADJ จืดชืด  ไม่มี รสชาติ  เอียน  tasteless jud-sed

 

mawkishly

ADV อย่าง จืดชืด  yang-jud-sed

 

mawkishness

N ความ จืดชืด  kwam-jud-sed

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAWKISH

a.Apt to cause satiety or lothing. So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull.

 

MAWKISHNESS

n.Aptness to cause lothing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MAWKISH

Mawk "ish, a. Etym: [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.

 

MAWKISHLY

MAWKISHLY Mawk "ish *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a mawkish way.

 

MAWKISHNESS

MAWKISHNESS Mawk "ish *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mawkish

mawk ish |ˈmôkiSH ˈmɔkɪʃ | ▶adjective sentimental in a feeble or sickly way: a mawkish poem. • archaic or dialect having a faint sickly flavor: the mawkish smell of warm beer. DERIVATIVES mawk ish ly adverb, mawk ish ness noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘inclined to sickness ’): from obsolete mawk ‘maggot, ’ from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

mawkish

mawk |ish |ˈmɔːkɪʃ | ▶adjective sentimental in an exaggerated or false way: a mawkish ode to parenthood. • archaic or dialect having a faint sickly flavour: the mawkish smell of warm beer. DERIVATIVES mawkishly adverb, mawkishness noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘inclined to sickness ’): from obsolete mawk ‘maggot ’, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mawkish

mawkish adjective he keeps sending her these mawkish greeting cards: sentimental, oversentimental, maudlin, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, oversweet, syrupy, nauseating; informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, cheesy, corny, soppy, cornball, hokey, tearjerker, tearjerking, three-hankie.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mawkish

mawkish adjective a long and mawkish poem: sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite; Brit. twee; informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling; Brit. informal soppy; N. Amer. informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hankie. ANTONYMS cool, dry.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mawkish

mawk ish /mɔ́ːkɪʃ /形容詞 ｟非難して ｠(吐き気がするほど )ひどく感傷的な .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞