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1 تملق
1́ adj. mawkish2́ curry favor with, lick one's boots3́ n. flattery, servilism, cajolery, court, sweet talk, compliment, coaxing, blarney, oiliness, incense, palaver, soft soap, insinuation, subservience, butter, taffy4́ v. flatter, adulate, cajole, coax, wheedle, blandish, cringe, sweet talk, fawn, toady, butter up, butter, palaver, soft soap, soap, suck up to, kowtow, ingratiate oneself, con, make -
2 عاطفي
adj. sentimental, mawkish, romantic, rhapsodic, smoochy, soft, soulful, moving, sob, intimate, affectional, emotional, emotive, passional, passionate, overwhelming -
3 مثير للغثيان
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4 مسرف بالعاطفية
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5 مغث
adj. nasty, nauseating, nauseous, queasy, sickening, sickly, disgusting, mawkish, brackish
См. также в других словарях:
Mawkish — Mawk ish, a. [Orig., maggoty. See {Mawk}.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting. [1913 Webster] So sweetly mawkish , and so smoothly dull. Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mawkish — index unsavory Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
mawkish — 1660s, sickly, nauseated, from M.E. mawke maggot (see MAGGOT (Cf. maggot)). Sense of sickly sentimental is first recorded 1702. Related: Mawkishly; mawkishness … Etymology dictionary
mawkish — maudlin, *sentimental, romantic, soppy, mushy, slushy Analogous words: flat, vapid, jejune, *insipid, banal, inane … New Dictionary of Synonyms
mawkish — [adj] sentimental, emotional bathetic, cloying, feeble, gooey*, gushing, gushy*, lovey dovey*, maudlin, mushy*, nauseating, romantic, sappy*, schmaltzy*, sickening, sloppy, tear jerking*, teary; concepts 401,542 Ant. calm, serious, unemotional … New thesaurus
mawkish — ► ADJECTIVE 1) sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. 2) archaic or dialect having a faint sickly flavour. ORIGIN from obsolete mawk maggot … English terms dictionary
mawkish — [mô′kish] adj. [lit., maggoty < ME mawke, maggot < ON mathkr < IE base * math , gnawing vermin > MOTH] 1. having a sweet, weak, sickening taste; insipid or nauseating 2. sentimental in a weak, insipid way, so as to be sickening… … English World dictionary
mawkish — [17] The underlying meaning of mawkish is ‘maggotish’. It was derived from a now obsolete word mawk, which meant literally ‘maggot’ but was used figuratively (like maggot itself) for a ‘whim’ or ‘fastidious fancy’. Hence mawkish originally meant… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
mawkish — [[t]mɔ͟ːkɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending. Syn: nauseating, soppy … English dictionary
mawkish — [17] The underlying meaning of mawkish is ‘maggotish’. It was derived from a now obsolete word mawk, which meant literally ‘maggot’ but was used figuratively (like maggot itself) for a ‘whim’ or ‘fastidious fancy’. Hence mawkish originally meant… … Word origins
mawkish — adj. Mawkish is used with these nouns: ↑sentiment … Collocations dictionary
