mome
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mome
First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Now, farewell, master mine, good gentle master mome.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew
S–S–Sorry your mother is from mome me dears quite counted on finding her rat ome.
From A Houseful of Girls by Prout, Victor
Not I, by the mass, I had rather he hanged were, Than I would sit quaking like a mome for fear.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
It was none but Roister Doister that foolishe mome.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
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