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mammock
[ mam-uhk ]
noun
- a fragment; scrap.
verb (used with object)
- to break, tear, or cut into fragments; shred.
mammock
/ ˈmæmək /
noun
- a fragment
verb
- tr to tear or shred
Word History and Origins
Origin of mammock1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mammock1
Example Sentences
Mammock, mam′uk, n. a shapeless piece.—v.t.
The foot is the day- labourer, and this is armed with hobnail boots, because it has to wear and be worn by the ground; which again is symbolical; for it is navvies or day-labourers who, on the great scale or in gangs and millions, mainly trench, tunnel, blast, and in other ways disfigure, "mammock" the earth and, on a small scale, singly, and superficially stamp it with their footprints.
None seem wholly dead words except the following eighteen: To mammock, tear; mell, meddle; mose, mourn; micher, truant; mome, fool; mallecho, mischief; maund, basket; marcantant, merchant; mun, sound of wind; mure, wall; meacock, henpecked; mop, grin; militarist, soldier; murrion, affected with murrain; mammering, hesitating; mountant, raised up; mered, only; man-entered, grown up.
O, I warrant, how he mammock'd it!
"You are Wilkin Mammock, who fought well against the Welsh at the Garde Doloureuse?"
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