Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The god of blame and ridicule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In classical mythology, a son of Night, the god of raillery and censure.
- noun In ornithology, a genus of humming-birds, of the family Trochilidæ, the type of which is M. idaliæ of Brazil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Gr. Myth.) The god of mockery and censure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun god of blame and mockery
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Examples
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Before he had died in the bad air of the Bamboo, the Governor had picked the name Momus, after the ancient Earth god of ridicule.
Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982
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Nick Currie aka Momus will be performing live daily for free in Chelsea until July 15th.
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Nick Currie aka Momus will be performing live daily for free in Chelsea until July 15th.
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Growing old in, and with, Japan "on the Click Opera blog, Nick Currie (aka Momus) lists several points of what could be" a silver lining to Japan's likely silver age "but concludes that realistically," Japan will get cheaper, smaller, poorer, purer, wiser, more itself. "review [en] of a decade of Japanese music by W. David MARX at Néojaponisme.
Global Voices Online Tomomi Sasaki 2010
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Growing old in, and with, Japan "on the Click Opera blog, Nick Currie (aka Momus) lists several points of what could be" a silver lining to Japan's likely silver age "but concludes that realistically," Japan will get cheaper, smaller, poorer, purer, wiser, more itself. "review [en] of a decade of Japanese music by W. David MARX at Néojaponisme.
Global Voices Online 2010
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"Among other complaints, I have pondered the use of the name 'Momus' as an oath, and I see little objection.
Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982
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On this score, I like what Momus has to say about why he is stopping his own regular blogging.
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His mission was to make sure I didn't steal the scene by doing something unfortunate, such as tumbling down the flight of stairs that led from the set's upper level, where most of the supers mingled, to the stars who would be flirting and fighting and dining at the Café Momus below.
Bravo, to the Rear Stage Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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One, by cult musician Momus, is a tongue-in-cheek audioguide to city bus routes tip: don't believe everything you hear.
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I prefer French, Italian, Romanian, Jewish (especially Ladino, but more traditional too), Spanish, some German (Cusco and Modern Talking/some of its clones) and some Portuguese music; very little US/UK - Momus mostly
New Poll: What Kinds Of Music Do You Listen To? Jeff C 2010
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