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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: maudlin (0.00869 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to maudlin.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: maudlin maudlin adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressons of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry” [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Maudlin Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.] 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. “Maudlin eyes.” --Dryden. “Maudlin eloquence.” --Roscommon. “A maudlin poetess.” --Pope. “Maudlin crowd.” --Southey. [1913 Webster] 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. [1913 Webster] Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron. [1913 Webster] Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow. [1913 Webster]

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