Mawashi
noun
a sumo wrestling loincloth
Examples
It is disturbing to see the wrestlers in their mawashi.
Word Origin
1940
Usage Note
sing and pl form
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- Mawger
/ˈmɔːɡə/ adjective 1. (Caribbean) (of persons or animals) thin or lean
- Mawk
language, tool An faster implementation of nawk written by Mike Brennan at Boeing in 1991 and distributed under GPL but distinct from GNU’s gawk. Interpreter version 1.1.3 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4/SunOS 4.0.3; Vax/BSD 4.3, ULTRIX 4.1; Stardent 3000/SYSVR3; DECStation/ULTRIX 4.1, MS-DOS/Turbo C++. (ftp://oxy.edu/public/mawk). (2000-05-04)
- Mawkin
[maw-kin] /ˈmɔ kɪn/ noun 1. . /ˈmɔːkɪn/ noun 1. a variant of malkin 2. (Brit, dialect)
- Mawkish
[maw-kish] /ˈmɔ kɪʃ/ adjective 1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. 2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating. /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/ adjective 1. falsely sentimental, esp in a weak or maudlin way 2. nauseating or insipid in flavour, smell, etc adj. 1660s, “sickly, nauseated,” from Middle English mawke “maggot” (see maggot). Sense of “sickly sentimental” […]
- Mawkishness
[maw-kish] /ˈmɔ kɪʃ/ adjective 1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. 2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating. /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/ adjective 1. falsely sentimental, esp in a weak or maudlin way 2. nauseating or insipid in flavour, smell, etc adj. 1660s, “sickly, nauseated,” from Middle English mawke “maggot” (see maggot). Sense of “sickly sentimental” […]