Mome

subs. (old).—A blockhead. For synonyms, see BUFFLE and CABBAGE-HEAD.

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c. 1550. T. INGLELEND, The Disobedient Child [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 315].

	Me her husband, as a stark MOME,
	With knocking and mocking she will handle.

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1557–8. Jacob and Esau [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 208]. Or whether Jacob have any, that peakish MOME.

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1560. Nice Wanton [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 165]. I would sit quaking like a MOME for fear.

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1562–3. Jack Juggler [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 138].

	But if I were a wise woman, as I am a MOME,
	I should make myself, as good cheer at home.

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c. 1588. Flodden Field [CHILD, Ballads, vii. 73]. Away with this foolish MOME.

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1593. SHAKESPEARE, Comedy of Errors, iii. 1. 32. MOME, malt-horse, capon, … idiot, patch.

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1606. DRAYTON, A Skeltoniad [CHALMERS, iv. 429].

	Parnassus is not clome
	By every such MOME.

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1661. BROME, Songs, p. 105.

	Words are but wind, but blows come home;
	A stout tongu’d lawyer’s but a MOME.

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