mommick

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mommick

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Apparently a variant of mammock.

verb mommicks · mommicking · mommicked · mommock · mommuck

  1. dialectal, transitive 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.

    Similar: annoy, vex, aggravate, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate

  2. dialectal, transitive To beat up or rough up (someone). 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?

    Similar: do over, work over

  3. Appalachia, Southern US, dialectal To mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling. ‘You see,’ continued he, ‘my wife wanted a new bar-skin petticoat, and Sal, that gal of our’n, kept pesterin me ’bout some bar’s ile to slick her har with, (as the fellers didn’t like to see her mommock her head with taller,) so as how I couldn’t rest.’

    Similar: botch, mess up, ball up, blight, bumble, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crab, deprave, disrupt

noun mommock · mommuck · mummock

  1. Appalachia, Southern US, dialectal A mess, a disorderly state or thing. As soon as she walks up the porch steps and opens the screen door, she knows that Henry is already home. Amid the noisy mommick, she can sense his humming presence.

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@misc{mommick_2026,
  title = {mommick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mommick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}