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Definition of Mommet
1. an idol [n -S] - See also: idol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mommet
Literary usage of Mommet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith by Sarah Hewett (1892)
"He said he had not, and then she said he had called her shadow a "mommet. ...
Mrs. Berry directly after began to abuse him for calling her a " mommet. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"To be fair, the invalid, in this case, felt a pain in the foot before he knew
that a 'mommet' had been constructed for his discomfort. ..."
3. Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log by Richard Le Gallienne (1896)
"He had not been known to walk through the village for years, but he could not
die without seeing Johnny's 'mommet.' Consequently the villagers were startled ..."
4. Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1922)
"I be so hungry I could welly eat the barn tiles." mommet, a scarecrow. See Tess
of the D'Urbervilles: " Had it anything to do with father's ..."
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