{
  "Mawken":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one of a seafaring people located in the Mergui archipelago off the southern coast of Burma":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u022fk\u0259\u0307n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074011",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "maw-bound":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": costive":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "maw entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113515",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "mawk":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": maggot":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English mawke , modification of Old Norse mathkr":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u022fk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-173914",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "mawkin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of mawkin variant of malkin"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u022f\u02cckin"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-164553",
    "type":[]
  },
  "mawkish":{
    "antonyms":[
      "unsentimental"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": exaggeratedly or childishly emotional":[
        "a mawkish love story",
        "mawkish poetry"
      ],
      ": lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a mawkish plea for donations to the charity",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Sin City trash whiplashes with mawkish cute-kid sensitivity. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "But the show made the relationship between Deborah and Ava spiky and unpredictable, touching without ever being mawkish , and revealing about the ways both women had to adapt to a show business world that judges females harshly. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "This may sound mawkish \u2014but how much of our inner life is first learned through music",
      "Even when the season slows down a bit, Sudeikis\u2019 vulnerability is touching, without ever being mawkish . \u2014 oregonlive , 20 July 2021",
      "In most hands, this business of the mother-figure who sacrifices all for a child would be mawkish . \u2014 Rumaan Alam, The New Republic , 12 Apr. 2021",
      "And so much of what concerned me as important in the earlier pages of my diary now seems mawkish , trivial or beneath notice. \u2014 Paul Theroux, New York Times , 30 Mar. 2020",
      "This finale suggests a mawkish yet useful fact: that the cure for perfectionism is love. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 26 Feb. 2020",
      "Despite multifaceted characters and convincing performances (particularly from Cosio and Soria), Lemus and Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s dialogue sometimes feels preachy, mawkish or on-the-nose. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 13 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1697, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English mawke maggot, probably from Old Norse mathkr \u2014 more at maggot":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u022f-kish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "chocolate-box",
      "cloying",
      "corny",
      "drippy",
      "fruity",
      "gooey",
      "lovey-dovey",
      "maudlin",
      "mushy",
      "novelettish",
      "saccharine",
      "sappy",
      "schmaltzy",
      "sentimental",
      "sloppy",
      "slushy",
      "soppy",
      "soupy",
      "spoony",
      "spooney",
      "sticky",
      "sugarcoated",
      "sugary",
      "wet"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210011",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "mawkishness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "unsentimental"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": exaggeratedly or childishly emotional":[
        "a mawkish love story",
        "mawkish poetry"
      ],
      ": lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a mawkish plea for donations to the charity",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Sin City trash whiplashes with mawkish cute-kid sensitivity. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "But the show made the relationship between Deborah and Ava spiky and unpredictable, touching without ever being mawkish , and revealing about the ways both women had to adapt to a show business world that judges females harshly. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "This may sound mawkish \u2014but how much of our inner life is first learned through music",
      "Even when the season slows down a bit, Sudeikis\u2019 vulnerability is touching, without ever being mawkish . \u2014 oregonlive , 20 July 2021",
      "In most hands, this business of the mother-figure who sacrifices all for a child would be mawkish . \u2014 Rumaan Alam, The New Republic , 12 Apr. 2021",
      "And so much of what concerned me as important in the earlier pages of my diary now seems mawkish , trivial or beneath notice. \u2014 Paul Theroux, New York Times , 30 Mar. 2020",
      "This finale suggests a mawkish yet useful fact: that the cure for perfectionism is love. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 26 Feb. 2020",
      "Despite multifaceted characters and convincing performances (particularly from Cosio and Soria), Lemus and Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s dialogue sometimes feels preachy, mawkish or on-the-nose. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 13 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1697, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English mawke maggot, probably from Old Norse mathkr \u2014 more at maggot":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u022f-kish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "chocolate-box",
      "cloying",
      "corny",
      "drippy",
      "fruity",
      "gooey",
      "lovey-dovey",
      "maudlin",
      "mushy",
      "novelettish",
      "saccharine",
      "sappy",
      "schmaltzy",
      "sentimental",
      "sloppy",
      "slushy",
      "soppy",
      "soupy",
      "spoony",
      "spooney",
      "sticky",
      "sugarcoated",
      "sugary",
      "wet"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103720",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "mawl":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of mawl variant spelling of maul:1"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-210135",
    "type":[]
  },
  "mawmouth":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several voracious American freshwater fishes":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from maw entry 1 + mouth":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114505",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}