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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(dialectal, transitive, including Ocracoke Island North Carolina) To harass or bother (someone or something)..
The big woman wheeled on the tumbling children in the car. "Billie-Dove Newsome, min' you manners. Ramon-Novarro, quit mommicking de dog!" She turned back.
Using a bit of Down East vernacular, as if talking about a family member, she adds, “Leo's used to me mommicking [teasing] him—treating him like a baby.”
Evelith Strange writes to Mrs. Makely from Altruria: Do you still keep on murdering and divorcing, and drowning and burning, and mommicking, and maiming people by sea and land? Has there been any war since I left?
"Mommick him up good, because you've got to go to jail anyhow."
"He was too mean for Hell, having people mommicked and gaumed up the way he did.”
I heard him hollar as he sank out of sight, "My Lord Honey, haint I been momicked this night."
"I don't fault her for effort," said one man, the oldest at the table, "but she's wanting to do it all by herself, then she mommicks thing up."
And anyway, his presence seemed to mommick up electricity. So he stuck to walking.
Use mommick when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mommick means (dialectal, transitive, including Ocracoke Island North Carolina) To harass or bother (someone or something)..
Common synonyms include annoy, vex, aggravate, nettle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The big woman wheeled on the tumbling children in the car. "Billie-Dove Newsome, min' you manners. Ramon-Novarro, quit mommicking de dog!" She turned back.
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