Meaning of mammet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A false god; an idol.
   obsolete
2. A doll or puppet; a lifeless figure, an effigy, a scarecrow.
3. A contemptible person; a weakling, a fool.

Examples

“Moloc that mawmett. there darre no man wᵗ ſay The Reſte of ſuche Reconyng may make a fowle fraye”

“And then to haue a wretched puling foole, / A whining mammet, in her Fortunes tender, / To answer, Ile not wed, I cannot Loue: / I am too young, I pray you pardon me.”

“this is no world / To play with mammets and to tilt with lips”

“He didn't want to go, and I didn't want him to go; and we stood there like two mommets and there was nothing we could say.”

“Blind, deaf, insensate driveler!—Torpid, blockish, brainless mammet!”

“"Had it anything to do with father's making such a mommet of himself in the carriage this afternoon?”

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