mommick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mommicks
form: mommicking
form: mommicked
form: mommicked
form: mommuck
form: mummock
Etymology: Apparently a variant of mammock.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1960, Vinnie Williams, Walk Egypt, page 178:
text: 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.”
ref: 2007, Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: annoy
word: vex
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
qualifier: including Ocracoke Island North Carolina
glosses: To harass or bother (someone or something).
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1968, William Dean Howells, The Altrurian romances, volume 20, page 430
text: "Mommick him up good, because you've got to go to jail anyhow."
ref: 1998, Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings, page 24:
text: "He was too mean for Hell, having people mommicked and gaumed up the way he did.”
ref: 2014, Richard Chase, American Folk Tales and Songs, →ISBN, page 21:
text: I heard him hollar as he sank out of sight, "My Lord Honey, haint I been momicked this night."
ref: about 1980, Connie McElroy, 'Twas a Night Afore Chistmas, Son: or A Harkers Island Christmas:
synonyms: do over
work over
glosses: To beat up or rough up (someone).
examples: text: "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."
ref: 1994, Gail Godwin, A Mother and Two Daughters, →ISBN, page 420:
text: And anyway, his presence seemed to mommick up electricity. So he stuck to walking.
ref: 2009, Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: botch
word: mess up
word: crab
word: ball up
word: blight
word: botch
word: bugger up
word: bungle
word: dirty
word: undo
word: disrupt
word: disturb
word: fuck up
word: jack up
word: mar
word: mess up
word: mishandle
word: mommick
word: pollute
word: put a crimp in
word: queer
word: ruin
word: screw up
word: sour
word: spoil
word: stain
word: upset
word: turn upside down
word: upset the applecart
word: vitiate
qualifier: chiefly North Carolina
glosses: To mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling.