Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. etc. See maumet, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete An idol; a puppet; a doll.
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman maumet, shortened form of mauhoumet, use of Mahomet ("Muhammad"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Spain, a kind of "mammet" (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favorite sister of our Charles II.”
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
“a kind of 'mammet' (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favourite sister of our Charles II.”
“In May, 1690 a new bride, Marie de Neuborg, was brought to the grisly side of the crowned mammet of Spain.”
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
“May 1690 a new bride, Marie de Neubourg, was brought to the grisly side of the crowned mammet of Spain.”
“Now Johnson, {516} in his _Dictionary_, the folio edition, derives _mammet_ from the word”
“Orleans in Scotland, and accorded with the Duke of Albany that this next summer he shall bring the mammet [167] of Scotland to stir what he may; and also that there should be found (p. 219) ways to the having away specially of the Duke of Orleans, and also of the K. as well as of the remnant of my said prisoners, that God do defend!”
“_mammet_ means "puppet," why not derive this word from the French _marmot_, which means a puppet.”
“‘simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95}, and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mammet’.
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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Puppet (Words) On a String
puppet, hand puppet, glove doll, glove puppet, marionette, popet, puppetman, puppet-player, puppetry, puppet-show, puppet-play, puppetish and 40 more...
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