Definition of "mawks" []

• Plural form of mawk. (noun)
• Hands (noun)
• A slattern; a mawk. (noun)

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• "He still nursed his grievances, for pet grievances are not yet included in the tax on luxuries, but these were no longer suffragettes and lawyers, but slugs, "mawks," and"
• "March 18, 2008 at 3:27 am nope. me neever. wut? doaz blak mawks on da seelin? oh, um, dat wuz mai uttemp at mawdurn art. yoo doan lyke it?"
• "If by any chance these animals are suffered to accompany the meat to the safe or larder, in the course of twenty-four hours the small white mawks increase to the length of one-eighth of an inch, and are found crawling in hundreds and moving about, as you have observed the yellow flies buzzing over the old and rotten carcass of a horse that has been exposed for weeks."