Noun: mawk
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mawk
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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). See: Middle English Nouns '
mawke', Old Norse Nouns '
maðkr', Old English Nouns '
maþa', Danish Nouns '
maddike', Swedish Nouns '
mask', English Nouns '
maddock'.
Verbs referencing "mawk"
Swedish Nouns
mask, Old English Nouns
maþa.