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单词 mawk
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mawkn.

Brit. /mɔːk/, U.S. /mɔk/, /mɑk/, Scottish English /mɔk/, /mɔx/
Forms: late Middle English mawke, late Middle English 1600s 1800s– make, late Middle English–1500s 1800s– moke, 1500s– mauk, 1600s malke, 1600s mauke, 1600s– mawk, 1700s mox (English regional (Derbyshire)), 1800s– maak, 1800s– mack, 1800s– malke, 1800s– mawg, 1800s– moak, 1800s– mork; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– mach, pre-1700 1700s– mauch, 1700s– mauk, 1800s– mach, 1800s– maugh, 1800s– mawk, 1800s– moch, 1900s– mack, 1900s– mauck, 1900s– moch (chiefly northern).
Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Probably < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic maðkr maggot, grub): see discussion s.v. maddock n.For the development of the diphthong perhaps compare auger n.1, hawk n.1, maw n.3, although none of these provides an exact parallel. In form mox both singular and plural.
Now Scottish and English regional (northern).
A maggot; a grub.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > thought to be generated by decay or maggot
wormOE
matheOE
maddocka1250
mawka1425
maggot?a1475
vermicular?1691
vermiculus1694
vermicule1713
a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 643/3 Hic cimex, mawke.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 321 (MED) Make, mathe, wyrm yn þe fleshe.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 332 Att þe laste mawkis bred þerin.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 706/20 Hec tinea, a moke.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Mauch muttoun, byle buttoun, peilit gluttoun.
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 181 Hee is a sorry shepheard, that is busie to kill Flyes and Maukes in his sheepe, but letteth the wolfe worry at pleasure.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 82 In what parte of the woll soever it bee, there will malkes breede immediately.
1685 G. Meriton Praise of York-shire Ale Gloss. 98 Mawks, are Maddocks.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 5 The cloken hen to the midden rins..To scrape for mauks.
a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 112 Mox, moths [For mawks].
1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 73 A mawk on a sheep's hurdie.
1939 J. McNeillie Wigtown Ploughman xxiii. 349 A hae a min' tae plant this in yer belly an' let ye lie for the maucks tae feed on.
1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. ii. 421 Heaving with maggots,..full of maggots/mawks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mawkv.

Brit. /mɔːk/, U.S. /mɔk/, /mɑk/, Scottish English /mɔk/
Forms: see mawk n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mawk n.
Etymology: < mawk n.
Scottish and English regional (northern).
transitive. To cause to become infested with maggots. Also intransitive: to become infested with maggots.
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1822 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Sept. 303/2 Syne bann in his byre, and curse in his kirn, And mauk his beef i' the brine.
1892 M. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 341 (Gloss.), s.v. Mawk, n.c. A maggot. Also used as a verb... Ex.—They'll mawk leyke sheep.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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