mommick

== English == === Etymology === Apparently a variant of mammock. === Verb === mommick (third-person singular simple present mommicks, present participle mommicking, simple past and past participle mommicked) (dialectal, transitive, including Ocracoke Island North Carolina) To harass or bother (someone or something). Synonyms: annoy, vex; see also Thesaurus:annoy, Thesaurus:pester (dialectal, transitive) To beat up or rough up (someone). Synonyms: do over, work over 1968, William Dean Howells, The Altrurian romances, volume 20, page 430: 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? (dialectal, Appalachia, Southern US, chiefly North Carolina) To mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling. Synonyms: botch, mess up; see also Thesaurus:spoil ==== Alternative forms ==== mommuck, mummock === Noun === mommick (dialectal, Appalachia, Southern US, chiefly North Carolina) A mess, a disorderly state or thing. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mommick. ==== Related terms ==== mammock