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单词 mammock
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mammockn.

Brit. /ˈmamək/, U.S. /ˈmæmək/
Forms: 1500s–1600s mammocke, 1600s mamock, 1600s– mammock; regional 1800s– mammick, 1800s– mammuck, 1800s– mommack, 1800s– mommick, 1800s– mommock, 1800s– mommuck, 1800s– mommuk, 1800s– mummack, 1800s– mummick, 1800s– mummock, 1800s– mummuck, 1800s– mumock.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < a base *mam-, of imitative origin (compare mamble v., mumble v.) + -ock suffix, the original reference possibly being to chewing.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. also in senses ‘an untidy heap or mess, a litter; a confused, shapeless mass, a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle’, ‘a scarecrow; a “guy”; an untidily or absurdly dressed person’, ‘a poor eater, one who is dainty in eating’, and in corresponding verbal senses, alongside one reported instance of a sense ‘to mumble’. Recorded in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. also in senses ‘a mess, botch; someone who makes a mess; something strange and distasteful; a state of excitement or confusion’.
Now archaic and regional.
A scrap or shred, a broken or torn piece. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
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brucheOE
shredc1000
brokec1160
truncheonc1330
scartha1340
screedc1350
bruisinga1382
morsel1381
shedc1400
stumpc1400
rag?a1425
brokalyc1440
brokeling1490
mammocka1529
brokelette1538
sheavec1558
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segment1586
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hoof1655
arrachement1656
jaga1658
shattering1658
discerption1685
scar1698
twitter1715
frust1765
smithereens1841
chitling1843
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.viiiv Whan mamockes was your meate With moulde brede to eate.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 62 Small mammocks of stone..of the bignesse of dice.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 5) 100 God regardeth not the mammockes of our sacrifices.
a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. C2v Let me be torn into mammocks with wilde Bears if [etc.].
1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd iii. lv. 40 Their Masking sutes are all in Mamocks tore.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 247 Large cattle..will make mammocks, that they will leave and not eat.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 317 I say, cut him to mammocks upon the spot!
1839 T. Hood Hood's Own 236 I haven't a rag or a mummock To fetch me a chop or a steak; I wish that the coats of my stomach Were such as my Uncle would take!.
1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 78 Mummock, though not common, is sometimes heard. Skelton has the substantive, mummocks [sic], that I have never heard.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 40 This gangrel thief thought fit to tread The grass to mammocks by my head!
1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn iii. 26 Each man singed a mammock of mutton on a stick and ate it in the empty tent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mammockv.

Brit. /ˈmamək/, U.S. /ˈmæmək/
Forms: see mammock n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mammock n.
Etymology: < mammock n.
Now regional.
transitive. To break, cut, or tear into fragments or shreds. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)] > tear apart
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to-braidc893
to-tearc893
to-teec893
to-rendc950
to-breakc1200
to-tugc1220
to-lima1225
rivea1250
to-drawa1250
to-tosea1250
drawa1300
rendc1300
to-rit13..
to-rivec1300
to-tusec1300
rakea1325
renta1325
to-pullc1330
to-tightc1330
tirec1374
halea1398
lacerate?a1425
to-renta1425
yryve1426
raga1450
to pull to (or in) piecesc1450
ravec1450
discerp1483
pluck1526
rip1530
decerp1531
rift1534
dilaniate1535
rochec1540
rack1549
teasea1550
berend1577
distract1585
ream1587
distrain1590
unrive1592
unseam1592
outrive1598
divulse1602
dilacerate1604
harrow1604
tatter1608
mammocka1616
uprentc1620
divell1628
divellicate1638
seam-rend1647
proscind1659
skail1768
screeda1785
spret1832
to tear to shreds1837
ribbon1897
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iii. 67 Hee did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he mammockt it. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 22 The obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread.
1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) ii. 262 This was ready mammockt and cut to our hands.
1764 P. Francis Let. 28 June in Francis Lett. (1901) I. 65 After being all mammocked the fish were sent down to be boiled.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 4) vii. 159 Hearing your favourite poem..mammocked by the mouth of a forward Puppy.
1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 523 The soft parts are cut..and mammocked in every conceivable way.
1890 Athenæum 29 Mar. 400/2 One or two lines have to be mammocked to fit them into the new arrangement.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 790/2 A local word rarely heard elsewhere is mammock, ‘tear in shreds’, which some dictionaries list as obsolete or ‘dialectical’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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