mawk

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A maggot.
  2. A slattern. UK,dialectal,obsolete

词形变化

mawks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
mawkish mawky mollymawk

词源

From Middle English mawke, moke, a contraction of mathek, maddok, from Old Norse maðkr (“maggot”), a diminutive of a base from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (compare Old English maþa), from Proto-Indo-European *mat-, *mot- used in reference to insects and vermin. Cognate with Danish maddike, Swedish mask, archaic English maddock (modern maggot).
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