mome
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mome
First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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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 William Carew Hazlitt
Ay, such a mime is man when he is a mome, that he even smiled as he felt his pulse,—how cool was his blood, how regular the vibrations!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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 Edward Arber
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 Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
So long as strength remaineth in this arm: And pluck up thy heart, thou faint-hearted mome: As long as I live thou shalt take no harm.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
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