mammet
/ˈmamɪt/Now chiefly archaic and regional
noun
1An image, a dressed-up figure; a doll, a puppet.
2A contemptible or hateful person; a weakling, a physically or mentally feeble person. Now chiefly English regional.
Origin
Middle English (in an earlier sense). From Anglo-Norman maumet, reduced form of mauhoumet, Old French mahomet, mahommet idol, a use of Mahomet Mahomet, resulting from the common medieval Christian belief that the prophet Muhammad was worshipped as a god.
- make a galah of oneself
- make (a) game of
- make a go of
- make a hames of
- make a hash of
- make-ahead
- make a hit
- make a hole in
- make a Horlicks of
- make a House
- make a joke of
- make a killing
- make allowance(s) for
- make a man out of someone
- make a market
- make a match
- make a meal of
- make a mess
- make a mess of
- make a mockery of
- make (a) mock of
- make a monkey of (or out of) someone
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a move
- make a move on (or put the moves on)