单词 | mammock |
释义 | mammockn. 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 shreddingc950 brucheOE shredc1000 brokec1160 truncheonc1330 scartha1340 screedc1350 bruisinga1382 morsel1381 shedc1400 stumpc1400 rag?a1425 brokalyc1440 brokeling1490 mammocka1529 brokelette1538 sheavec1558 shard1561 fragment1583 segment1586 brack1587 parcel1596 flaw1607 fraction1609 fracture1641 pash1651 frustillation1653 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. 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 to-loukc890 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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