英语词汇mawkish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mawkish
词源	mawkish. Mawkish originally meant having a sickly, nause- ating or insipid flavor, but also means “characterized by sickly sentimentality, feebly emotional.” Whatever the mean- ing, anything mawkish is being compared to a maggot, the word deriving from the obsolete English mawk, maggot, which comes from a Scandinavian word meaning the same.
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