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Mathom vs Mathmo - What's the difference?

mathom | mathmo |

As nouns the difference between mathom and mathmo

is that mathom is a trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting while mathmo is (uk|slang|cambridge university) a mathematician.

mathom

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.
  • *1989 , Lewis Turco, The shifting web :
    • When the door of the mathom' shop is closed and the Inhabitant leaves the print of his footsteps for a moment on the wooden stair, things pause. There is no movement, not even of time. The ' mathoms listen until, downstairs, carpets and rugs swallow the noises of living, [...]
  • *1994 , Elaine St. James, Simplify Your Life :
    • When packing, start with treasures such as vases and art objects (of course, these are now going into the mathom' box, [...]) ... Now, when special occasions arise at which a gift would be appropriate, I search in our closet for a suitable ' mathom . I've also let my friends know that they are free to pass on (or possibly fob off) these "treasures" to someone else whenever appropriate.
  • *1999 , Stephen R. L. Clark, The Political Animal :
    • The first person to put a marker on a piece of land or ancestral mathom and say 'this is mine' was the first owner of capital, the first thief, the first magician.
  • *2000 , Karen Sayer, Country cottages: a cultural history :
    • Inhabited by large families, smials are cluttered, full of 'mathoms' (gifts and artefacts that can never be thrown out, for sentimental, practical or thrifty reasons), throw-backs to the ancient English hall-house, built of sticks rather than bricks.
  • *2003 , Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien :
    • They store seemingly useless articles for future use, calling their collected stuff mathom'. Far from being "junk" that we would discard, these leftovers are precious matter to the hobbits, for the word ' mathom means "treasure" in Anglo-Saxon.
  • *2006 , Gail Carson Levine, Writing magic :
    • A mathom' is an object you don't want but can't stand to give away or throw away. Do you have a ' mathom ? Most of us do.
  • *2007 , Sheila Collingwood-Whittick, The Pain of Unbelonging :
    • They turned out to be the same sort of detritus as everything else. Junk and mathoms and useless geegaws.

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    mathmo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, slang, Cambridge University) A mathematician.
  • * 1986 , University of Cambridge. Archimedeans, Eureka: Issues 46-50
    • This year's Honesty Prize goes to the natural sciences supervisor, who replied to a question with, "Don't ask me, I'm not a mathmo ."
  • * 2003 , "Sally Clough", Teacher Training - opinions please'' (on newsgroup ''alt.uk.a-levels )
    • I'm currently a third year mathmo at Cambridge
  • * 2007 , C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love And Economics (page 134)
    • Historians mingled with mathmos , medics with geographers. It was beautiful.