Log in or Sign up
  1. mammock love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A shapeless piece; a chunk; a fragment.
  2. To tear in pieces; maul: mangle; mumble.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A shapeless piece; a fragment.
  2. v. archaic or dialectal, transitive To tear to pieces.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A shapeless piece; a fragment.
  2. v. obsolete To tear to pieces.

Etymologies

  1. From mam (of obscure origin) +‎ -ock (“diminutive suffix”). (Wiktionary)

Examples

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘mammock’.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • bilby "I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; and when he caught it he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and up again; catched it again; or whether his fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O, I warrant, how he mammocked it!"
    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009

Tweets

Looking for tweets for mammock.

‘mammock’ has been looked up 1152 times, added to 6 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 16.