Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maudlin"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.)
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South
European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}, {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy},
{schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {slushy}]
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