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

I come to you from an honest mome.

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

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

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

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

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