mome

American  

[mohm] / moʊm /

noun

Archaic.

1. a fool; blockhead.

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Etymology

Origin of mome

First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

Goe say, that I bid him keepe him warme at home For if he come abroade, he shall cough me a mome.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward

This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

From Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll, Lewis

I will see, if any be ready here at home, Or whether Jacob have any, that peakish mome.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Suddenly she laughed crazily: "'Twas brillig, and the slythy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe!"

From The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Morrow, Honoré

WAS brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

From The Best Nonsense Verses by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam