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▪ I. mammock, n. arch. and dial. (see E.D.D.).|ˈmæmək|
Also 6–7 mammocke, 7 mamock.
[Of obscure origin: formed with the dim. suffix -ock.]
A scrap, shred, broken or torn piece. Also fig.
a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 654 Whan mammockes was your meate, With moldy brede to eate. c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. iv. i, Let me be torn into mammocks with wilde Bears if [etc.]. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 62 Small mammocks of stone..of the bignesse of dice. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 5. 100 God regardeth not the mammockes of our sacrifices. 1651Ogilby æsop (1665) 137 Their Masking Sutes are all in mamocks tore. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 247 Large cattle..will make mammocks, that they will leave and not eat. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiii, I say, cut him to mammocks upon the spot! 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 40 This gangrel thief thought fit to tread The grass to mammocks by my head!
▪ II. mammock, v. Now chiefly dial. (see E.D.D.).|ˈmæmək|
[f. mammock n.]
trans. To break, cut, or tear into fragments or shreds.
1607Shakes. Cor. i. iii. 71 Hee did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he mammockt it. 1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 17 The obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread. 1670Covel Diary (Hakl. Soc.) 262 This was ready mammockt and cut to our hands. 1764Francis Lett. (1901) I. 65 After being all mammocked the fish were sent down to be boiled. 1852Fraser's Mag. XLV. 523 The soft parts are cut..and mammocked in every conceivable way. 1888Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore I. No. 2 A colored man..frequently complains that the cows ‘mammock the hay’ so badly.
fig.1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vii. lxix, Hearing your favourite poem..mammocked by the mouth of a forward Puppy. 1865Knight Sch. Hist. Eng. I. 660 He [Garrick] mangled Shakspere. And he patched the mammock'd plays with tawdry rags. 1890Athenæum 29 Mar. 400/2 One or two lines have to be mammocked to fit them into the new arrangement. |