Word for the Day, Monday, February 27, 2012-- mawkish

2/27/12 | xs

[xsmommy]

Word For The Day, Monday, 2/27/12

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

mawkish; adj.

1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. 2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating

Etymology: 1668, sickly, nauseated, from M.E. mawke "maggot" (see maggot). Sense of "sickly sentimental" is first recorded 1702

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[xsmommy]

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

Obama's mawkish apologizing must be brought to the fore so that the people can judge him appropriately.

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

No pushing at the door please!

[xsmommy]

rise and get to shining!

[SAJ]

Similarly, a maudlin tropical bird lover is macawkish.

[xsmommy]

good one! ya birdbrain ; ) A+++

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

On Syria, Barry is mawkish
When he needs to be brawny and hawkish
On Libya, his cry
Was, “We cannot stand by”
But on Homs, he is distant and dorkish

[xsmommy]

you are so damn good, Truthy! A+++++

[secret garden]

I'm not going to get into the mawkish relationship between Romney and Paul. Instead, this was interesting.

[left that other site]

I would love to see Lt Col Allen West become The Speaker of the House.

Then we will not have to be subjected to any more of the Present Speaker’s mawkish displays.

[xsmommy]

very interesting! A+++

[xsmommy]

Love me some Allen West, but we must always ping the president of his fanclub, ms. explorer89, when we speak of him ; ) A+++

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

you are so damn good, Truthy!

Without getting overly mawkish
You like all your limericks New Yawkish

[xsmommy]

with a little bit of filth thrown in ; )

[mikrofon]

Then there was that Waltons spin-off about Paw & Maw Kish that never took off...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Truthy, so little of what people claim is poetry is really even halfway decent, but you and Texan5 have a gift. Luckily there are a few others here who also come up with some pretty good limericks, but then who doesn’t like a clever limerick?

[left that other site]

I didn’t know that! :-)

[xsmommy]

goodnight, mik ; ) A+++

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thanks very much for the kind words.

[blueunicorn6]

Little Billy got into the spiked Christmas punch and started drunkenly singing “I saw mawkish Santa Claus!”

[xsmommy]

good first effort, welcome to class : ) A+++

[Robert A Cook PE]

The WWII army brass didn’t like Bill Maudlin’s mawkish cartoons of dirty, muddy, unshaven GI’s drawn ever-so-accurately in their foxholes and trenches.....