7 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
adjective effusively or insincerely emotional
originEtymology tree English mawk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English mawkish From mawk + -ish.
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