"mawky" meaning in English

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      "form": "mawkier",
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      "form": "mawkiest",
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          "ref": "1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 130",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Maggoty, full of maggots."
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        "(Northern England, Appalachia) Maggoty, full of maggots."
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      "ipa": "[mɔːki]"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːki"
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      "form": "mawkier",
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          "text": "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.",
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