mammet – English noun declension

English noun forms of mammet

Noun: mammet
Singularmammet
Pluralmammets

Sample Sentences

  • Moloc that mawmett. there darre no man wᵗ ſay
  • The Reſte of ſuche Reconyng may make a fowle fraye [c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:]
  • And then to haue a wretched puling foole, / A whining mammet, in her Fortunes tender, / To answer, Ile not wed, I cannot Loue: / I am too young, I pray you pardon me. [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:]
  • this is no world / To play with mammets and to tilt with lips [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act HENRY 4-1, scene ii], page 3:]
  • He didn't want to go, and I didn't want him to go; and we stood there like two mommets and there was nothing we could say. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 49:]
  • Blind, deaf, insensate driveler!—Torpid, blockish, brainless mammet! [1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. V, letter 88:]
  • "Had it anything to do with father's making such a mommet of himself in the carriage this afternoon? [1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:]

Etymology

From Middle English mawmet, from Anglo-Norman maumet, shortened form of mauhoumet, mahumet; deriving from Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately derived from Arabic Muhammad. See: Middle English Nouns 'mawmet'.