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mammetn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maumet. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman maumet, reduced form of mauhoumet, Old French mahomet, mahommet idol (12th cent.), a use of Mahomet Mahomet n., resulting from the common medieval Christian belief that the prophet Muhammad was worshipped as a god. Compare Mahomet n. 1.Several senses have parallels in regional French: with sense 3a compare French regional (Brittany) mahonet mischievous sprite, Canadian French mahoumet evil spirit; with senses 3b and 4a compare French regional (Walloon) mawoumet straw man used to ridicule someone ( > Belgian Dutch mahomet scarecrow); with sense 4b compare French regional (Walloon) mahoumet baby. The word is attested earlier as a surname: Radulphus Maumet (1207). N.E.D. (1906) enters this under maumet and gives the pronunciation (mǭ·met) /ˈmɔːmɛt/. Now chiefly archaic and regional. †1. the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) 33 (MED) Ich..makede nabugodonosor..makien þe maumez igoten al of golde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 14583 Þer-inne he hafde his maumet, þa he heold for his god. c1300 St. Sebastian (Laud) 43 in C. Horstmann (1887) 179 Þine maumates bi-leue, Þat ne mouwe helpe nouȝt, for heo beoth doumbe and deue. 1340 (1866) 6 Þe ilke þet worssipeþ þe momenes. a1382 (Douce 370) 4 Kings xviii. 4 He..hewȝ doun the mawmett wodis [L. lucos]. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 190 She shal noght to any be sette Withoutyn leue of my maumette. The munke seyd he graunted weyl Aftyr hys maumette to do euery deyl. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) xix. 86 Þe kirke..es mykill and faire and full of ymagery of þaire mawmets. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 78v A Mawment howse [1483 BL Add. 89074 place], ydolium. 1483 (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 232 A Mawment wyrscheper, idolatra. a1500 (?c1300) (Chetham) l. 488 Wheþure were strenger god in hevyn Or all the mawȝmettes, that ye can neme [read neven]. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1959) x. Prol. 153 Lat Virgyll hald his mawmentis till hym self; I wirschip noder idoll, stok, nor elf. a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in (1843) II. 20 Moloc, that mawmett, there darre no man withsay. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in 119/2 The ydolles and mammettes of the paganes. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece (1858) I. 99 And mamantis als he hes gart mak also, Of Phebus, Diane, and of Apollo. 1605 A. Willet xxx. 326 Such images and mammetts were found in Iacobs house. a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Pppv/2 Where I meet your maumet Gods, I'le swing 'em. 1647 J. Trapp (Acts xix. 25) Wealth is the worldlings god, which he prizeth as Micah did his mawmet. 1689 R. Milward 43 Heretofore they call'd Images Mammets, and the Adoration of Images Mammettry: that is, Mahomet and Mahometry.] c1390 G. Chaucer 749 Euery floryn in his cofre is his mawmet. c1400 Comm. on Canticles (Bodl. 288) in T. Arnold (1871) III. 38 Lovynge moore vicis þan virtues, and so þei serven mawmetis. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xcvi. 7 Sum has syluyre his mawmet. society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing Christ > and the saints 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe 309 If those Mawmettes, and signes of Sainctes, be erected in their churches for none other ende, but to put the beholders in remembraunce of the Saincts themselves [etc.]. 1650 J. Trapp (Deut. vii. 5) 91 Those mawmets and monuments of idolatry, the Rood of grace, the blood of Hales, &c. 1827 W. Tennant 91 Sipsies saw The marble mawments carvit braw Stuck in their niches i' the wa'. society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control > one who is under control of another c1390 (Vernon) (1950) 18 Þees is þe deueles Maumet þat haþ vs all wrongliche vsed in his werkes. 1419 in J. H. Fisher et al. (1984) 122 This next somer he shal bryng in the maumet of Scotland to sturre what he may. 1459 J. Brackley in (2004) II. 334 I knowe wele the iuge, W. Wayte hise mawment. 1548 f. xxxv Wherefore she [sc. the duchess] sent Perkyn Werbeck, her new inuented Mawmet first into Portyngall. 1593 G. Harvey 141 Nash,..Greene,..Euphues,..the three famous mammets of the presse. 3. the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 49v Pigmeus, a maumet. 1583 J. Dee Jrnl. in (1659) i. 11 There stand a great many of Mawmets, little ugly fellows at the top of the hill. 1600 ii. ii. 60 Io. What Mawmets are these? Fris. O they be the Fayries that haunt these woods. the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet 1461–2 in H. J. F. Swayne (1896) 8 Et ij lb. canabis pro crinibus..Et in Tynfoile..Et pro mamettis. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. clxiv The Cytie of Roan..made them a Mamet of a Fatte & vnwyldely as. 1530 J. Palsgrave 244/1 Maument, marmoset; poupee. 1583 P. Stubbes sig. Fviv Mawmets of rags & clowtes compact together. 1597–8 xxxiii. 186 (note) These havyng folowed theire vanitie al the night in sekynge there maumet, commonly called the floure of thwell, would nedes bringe the same on a barrow into ye churche in prayer times. 1598 W. Shakespeare ii. iv. 89 This is no world To play with mammets . View more context for this quotation 1609 sig. H1 Iulius Cæsar acted by the Mammets. 1642 C. Herle 2 He..sets up..a Mawmet of his owne dressing. 1861 J. R. Wise 154 This is no world to play with mommets. 1892 S. Hewett 15 It was at one time customary for village children to canvass the neighbourhood for subscriptions, for materials to make a Guy Fawkes' ‘momet’. 1921 W. de la Mare 89 Mute as a mammet in his saddle sate The hunched Postilion. 1930 H. Williamson 309 What was a mommet? I enquired. They told me it was a scarecrow. 1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin IV. i. 200 Q[uestion]. What do you put up in a field to frighten birds away?.. Mommet. [Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon.] 1970 G. Greer 34 A full bosom..endears her to the men who want to make their mammet of her. 4. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in (1843) I. 125 Thou murrionn, thow mawment, Thou fals stynkyng serpent. 1597 W. Shakespeare iii. v. 184 A wretched whyning foole, A puling mammet . View more context for this quotation 1600 L 3 b Downe stubborne Queene,..Downe, Mammet. 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin iii. sig. F4 O God that euer any man should looke Vpon this maumet and not laugh at him. 1612 B. Jonson v. v. sig. M4 'Slight, you are a Mammet! O, I could touse you, now. View more context for this quotation 1630 P. Massinger sig. B2v How the mammet twitters! 1877 i. 23 He wes olus a flaenowt braggan mamet. 1891 T. Hardy III. xlii. 33 What a mommet of a maid! 1932 W. H. Auden iii. 100 We're getting a little tired of boys, Of the ninny, the mawmet and the false alarm. 1937 L. A. G. Strong xvi. 307 How could you love a mommet like that? 1971 G. Jones & I. F. Elis 177 His mouth fell open, his eyes glared under the bloody eyebrows, he shook like a mammet. the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] 1932 S. Gibbons v. 69 Far from those that loves her and cowdled her in their bosoms when she was a mommet. 1949 23 42 The poor mommet whose father was ‘in trade’ is discernible even on its tomb as ‘a really vulgar babe’. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby 182 Mawmets, called (as I take it) from Mahomet. 1688 R. Holme ii. 244/2 Of Pigeons..Mawmets..exceed all others..from their great black eyes. 1835 P. J. Selby 164 Turkish or Mawmet Pigeon. Columba Turcica. 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