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

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

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

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

From Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Gerstenberg, Alice