mommick
mommick verb: to harass or bother (someone or something).
Verb
mommick (third-person singular simple present mommicks, present participle mommicking, simple past and past participle mommicked)
- To harass or bother (someone or something).
- The big woman wheeled on the tumbling children in the car. "Billie-Dove Newsome, min' you manners. Ramon-Novarro, quit mommicking de dog!" She turned back.1960, Vinnie Williams, Walk Egypt, page 178
- Using a bit of Down East vernacular, as if talking about a family member, she adds, “Leo's used to me mommicking [teasing] him—treating him like a baby.”2007, Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- annoy, vex, aggravate, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother
- To beat up or rough up (someone).
- Evelith Strange writes to Mrs. Makely from Altruria: Do you still keep on murdering and divorcing, and drowning and burning, and mommicking, and maiming people by sea and land? Has there been any war since I left?1968, William Dean Howells, The Altrurian romances, volume 20, page 430
- "Mommick him up good, because you've got to go to jail anyhow."1998, Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings, page 24
- To mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling.
- ‘You see,’ continued he, ‘my wife wanted a new bar-skin petticoat, and Sal, that gal of our’n, kept pesterin me ’bout some bar’s ile to slick her har with, (as the fellers didn’t like to see her mommock her head with taller,) so as how I couldn’t rest.’1849 November 10, The Spirit of the Times, New York, page 542, column 3
- "I don't fault her for effort," said one man, the oldest at the table, "but she's wanting to do it all by herself, then she mommicks thing up."1994, Gail Godwin, A Mother and Two Daughters, →ISBN, page 420
Noun
mommick
- A mess, a disorderly state or thing.
- As soon as she walks up the porch steps and opens the screen door, she knows that Henry is already home. Amid the noisy mommick, she can sense his humming presence.2010, Julianna Baggott, The Madam: A Novel, →ISBN, page 21
- "It's all such an awful mommick..." Anne shrugged. "Trapped on a sinking ship..."2012, Christine Blevins, The Turning of Anne Merrick, →ISBN
Examples of mommick in a sentence
- "He was too mean for Hell, having people mommicked and gaumed up the way he did.”2014, Richard Chase, American Folk Tales and Songs, →ISBN, page 21:
- And anyway, his presence seemed to mommick up electricity.2009, Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist, →ISBN:
Synonyms of mommick
Forms of mommick
| third-person singular present | mommicks |
|---|---|
| present participle | mommicking |
| past participle | mommicked |
| past | mommicked |
| alternative form | mommock |
| alternative form | mommuck |
| alternative form | mummock |
Origin of mommick
Apparently a variant of mammock.
Questions about mommick
- What does mommick mean?
- Mommick means to harass or bother (someone or something).
- How do you use mommick in a sentence?
- "He was too mean for Hell, having people mommicked and gaumed up the way he did.”
- What part of speech is mommick?
- Mommick can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of mommick?
- The past tense of mommick is mommicked.
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