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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Orig., maggoty. See

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.

So sweetly

mawkish’

, and so smoothly dull.

Pope.

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.

J. H. Newman.

Adj.

Apt to cause satiety or lothing.

So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull.