Mammock

Quick meaning: Mammock is a noun meaning (obsolete outside dialects) A shapeless piece; a fragment.

Meaning

(obsolete outside dialects) A shapeless piece; a fragment.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete outside dialects, chiefly North Carolina, transitive) To tear to pieces.

Example Sentences

"Can. Let me be torn into mammocks with wild Bears if I make not a gallemaufry of thy heart"

I smiled at her and she smiled back, her mouth sticky with strawberry jam from a piece of toast she was mammocking.

However, his own son has been pulling wings off butterflies, torturing them, mammocking them in his teeth, letting them go, capturing them again, mammocking them, and so on.

to keep off the profane touch of the Laicks, whilst the obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread, as familiarly as his Tavern Bisket

Word Forms

• mammocks
• mammocking
• mammocked

Synonyms for mammock

Depending on context, synonyms include hunk, lump, bit, chip, chunk, clip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mammoodies, mommick, moke, marmoset, moucade, mammifer.

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