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Mammock vs Cammock - What's the difference?

mammock | cammock |

As nouns the difference between mammock and cammock

is that mammock is (obsolete|outside|dialects) a shapeless piece; a fragment while cammock is the spiny restharrow, ononis spinosa , a plant with long, hard, crooked roots or cammock can be a crooked stick, staff or club.

As a verb mammock

is (obsolete|outside|dialects|chiefly|north carolina|transitive) to tear to pieces.

mammock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) A shapeless piece; a fragment.
  • * , II.12:
    • The bird liveth by the scraps, and feedeth upon the leavings of that monster, who gently receiveth him into his mouth, and suffers him to pecke his jawes and teeth for such mamockes .
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    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects, chiefly, North Carolina, transitive) To tear to pieces.
  • * (William Shakespeare), Coriolanus , First Folio 1623:
    • I saw him run after a gilded Butterfly, & when he caught it, he let it go againe, and after it againe, and ouer and ouer he comes, and vp againe: catcht it again: or whether his fall enrag'd him, or how 'twas, hee did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he mammockt it.

    Usage notes

    * In use with varying pronunciation and spelling in tidewater North Carolina among at least the .

    Related terms

    * mommick

    cammock

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spiny restharrow, Ononis spinosa , a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
  • Venus' needle, Scandix pecten-veneris .
    • References
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m); see (m) for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crooked stick, staff or club.
  • * 1578 , John Lyly, Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit :
    • For, say they, although iron the more it is used the brighter it is, yet silver with much wearing doth waste to nothing; though the cammock the more it is bowed the better it serveth, yet the bow the more it is bent and occupied the worse it waxeth.