mome

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  1. A buffoon; a fool; a blockhead; a ninny; a dull person; a stupid fellow. I dare be bold awhile to play the mome, Out of my sacke some other faults to lease. Mir. for Mags., 466. (Nares.) Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! Shak., C. of E., iii. l. 32. Words are but wind, but blowes come home, A stout tongu'd lawyer 's but a mome. Brome's Songs (1661), p. 105. (Halliwell.) Parnassus is not clome By every such mome. Drayton, Skeltoniad, p. 1373. (Nares.) Away with this foolish mome! Flodden Field (Child's Ballads, VII. 73).
  2. Soft; smooth. Halliwell. [North. Eng.]
  3. An aunt. Nominale MS. (Halliwell.)

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  • 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves / And the mome raths outgrabe. —  Jabberwock
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  • I didn't get to post much on Inauguration Day, but it really was a historic mome ... —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • Okay, Elsa, I think I'm getting this ... so what you're saying, then, is that instead of you putting on someone else that * they* want they're mom, you own / acknowledge / know / integrate that it's you that wants your mome, and so that makes you more interesting? —  ElsaElsa.com
  • Gianfranco: Shehan to some extent, I don 'think there are two more evenly matched teams in the World at the mome ... —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. from Old French mome, a mask: see mum.
  2. Cf. mum.
  3. Middle English mome = Middle Dutch moeme, Dutch moei = Middle Low German mōme = Old High German muomā, Middle High German muome, German muhme, aunt, cousin; cf. Icelandic mōna, mother; prob. orig. ‘mother's sister,’ and related to Anglo-Saxon mōdor, English mother: see mother.
 

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