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mommick en · NOUN
Etymology
Apparently a variant of mammock.
Meanings
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(Appalachia, Southern-US, dialectal, qualifier:chiefly North Carolina) 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.
2010, Julianna Baggott, The Madam: A Novel, →ISBN, page 21:"It's all such an awful mommick..." Anne shrugged. "Trapped on a sinking ship..."
2012, Christine Blevins, The Turning of Anne Merrick, →ISBN:
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mommick en · VERB
Etymology
Apparently a variant of mammock.
Meanings
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(dialectal, qualifier:including Ocracoke Island North Carolina, transitive) To harass or bother (someone or something).
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.”
2007, Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks, →ISBN: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.
1960, Vinnie Williams, Walk Egypt, page 178:
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(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?
1968, William Dean Howells, The Altrurian romances, volume 20, page 430I heard him hollar as he sank out of sight, "My Lord Honey, haint I been momicked this night."
about 1980, Connie McElroy, 'Twas a Night Afore Chistmas, Son: or A Harkers Island Christmas:"He was too mean for Hell, having people mommicked and gaumed up the way he did.”
2014, Richard Chase, American Folk Tales and Songs, →ISBN, page 21:"Mommick him up good, because you've got to go to jail anyhow."
1998, Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings, page 24:
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(Appalachia, Southern-US, dialectal, qualifier:chiefly North Carolina) To mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling.
"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."
1994, Gail Godwin, A Mother and Two Daughters, →ISBN, page 420:‘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.’
1849 November 10, The Spirit of the Times, New York, page 542, column 3:And anyway, his presence seemed to mommick up electricity. So he stuck to walking.
2009, Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist, →ISBN:
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Synonyms
roil · cheese off · persecute · besiege · rub someone the wrong way · bug · bumble · exasperate · ball up · pique · foil · bedevil · beleaguer · bug · hassle · annoy · piss off · jazz · vex · screw up · mess up · grind one's gears · aggravate · test someone's patience · get someone's dander up · burn up · rub up the wrong way · pollute · get someone's nanny · chap someone's hide · trouble · get up · storm · undo · get someone's Irish up · give someone grief · get someone's goat · chevy · plague · frustrate · acerbate · nettle · get on someone's wick · pee off · give someone the shits · bedevil · bait · raise someone's hackles · devil · mommick · mess up · hack off · botch · fuck up · stain · nerve · vex · dog · contaminate · mar · sour · irritate · put a crimp in · get someone's back up · harass · hound · bungle · Idioms: · mommick · get someone's nanny-goat · annoy · grotch · disgruntle · botherate · burn someone's ass · wind up · soil · vitiate · badger · sting · spoil · rankle · crab · irk · botch · get · bullyrag · peeve off · nark · peeve · boil someone's piss · vex · torque off · blight · corrupt · harry · put someone's back up · harsh one's mellow · upset the applecart · turn upside down · pick at · rile · ruffle someone's feathers · upset · jack up · molest · rile up · work over · get under one's goat · do over · antagonize · ruffle · get on someone's tits · get on someone's nerves · queer · bugger up · disturb · pester · tee off · deprave · beset · tick off · get under someone's skin · provoke · try one's patience · devil · mishandle · ruin · bother · disrupt · persecute · grate