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单词 mawkinly
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mawkinlyadj.

Forms: 1600s mawkingly, 1700s–1800s mawkinly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: malkin n., -ly suffix1.
Etymology: < malkin n. (see β forms s.v.) + -ly suffix1.Perhaps compare mawky recorded in later regional use in Eng. Dial. Dict. in sense ‘of a woman: dowdy and ungainly; wearing tawdry finery’ (compare mawks n.), and compare also mawkish adj. 4.
English regional (north-western) in later use. Obsolete.
Slovenly.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] > of their dress or habits
sluttishc1405
slovenlya1568
slatternly1655
mawkinly1656
slattern1680
sloven-like1800
sloven1821
1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 87 Some silly soules are prone to place much piety in their mawkingly plainnesse, and in their censoriousnesse of others, who use more comely and costly curiosities.
?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 37 I'd..bin so vara mawkinly rowlt ith' Riggot.
?1857 J. Scholes Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt vi. 26 Noan o yoar mawkinly treawsers-breechus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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