mommicking

Verb

mommick (third-person singular simple present mommicks, present participle mommicking, simple past and past participle mommicked)

1. (dialectal, transitive, including Ocracoke Island North Carolina) 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

   Synonyms:

   annoy, vex, aggravate, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother

2. (dialectal, transitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   do over, work over

3. (Appalachia, Southern US, dialectal, chiefly North Carolina) 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

   Synonyms:

   botch, mess up, ball up, blight, bumble, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crab

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