Lexicographical Neighbors of Mummock
Literary usage of Mummock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"mummock. A shapeless confused mass. A clumsily-swaddled baby or badly-dressed
woman would be ' aal in a mummock.'—NW Mum up. To make much of, pamper, pet, ..."
2. Original Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1876)
"I get as muffling as a child.' Mullen, the head-gear of a horse. mummock ...
The children do mummock mo about so. ..."
3. Venus and Adonis, a study in Warwickshire dialect [with an example from by James Appleton Morgan (1885)
"(Also in several other dialects, H.) mummock—The child do mummock me so=The child
worries me. Account—He bean't o' account: - He is not worth anything. ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood (1866)
"Were locked up strictly, without bit or mummock, Till every Beast that only had
one stomach, Bent to the Camel, who was blest with three. ..."
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