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mimmick

mimmick is the obsolete form of mimic.

Meaning of mimic

Verb

mimic (third-person singular simple present mimics, present participle mimicking, simple past and past participle mimicked)

  1. (transitive) To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
  2. (transitive) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

See all 10 meanings of mimic

Forms of mimmick

third-person singular presentmimmicks
present participlemimmicking
past participlemimmicked
pastmimmicked

Questions about mimmick

What is mimmick the obsolete form of?
Mimmick is the obsolete form of mimic.

Words near mimmick in the dictionary

  1. mimmering
  2. mimmerkin
  3. mimmerkins
  4. mimmers
  5. mimmest
  6. mimmick
  7. mimmicked
  8. mimmicking
  9. mimmicks
  10. Mimms
  11. Mimmses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mimmick (page history and authors); mimic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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