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- noun Plural form of
mammet .
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Examples
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It was hardly a time to play with mammets or to tilt with lips, and it seemed that the matter might wait.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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Page 21 old Frenchman here would say; we all have our crosses in love as in war; and, besides, this is no time to play with mammets, or to tilt with lips!
The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina 1864
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"This is no world to play with _mammets_, or to tilt with lips."
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I suppose there's some sense to that, since many weedy, half-faced mammets will still opt for mutual funds, no matter how much common sense I try to beat into them.
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I suppose there's some sense to that, since many weedy, half-faced mammets will still opt for mutual funds, no matter how much common sense I try to beat into them.
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