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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
mammock .
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Examples
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'Oh, I warrant, how he mammocked it!' declares a friend, and Volumnia nods approvingly: 'One on 's father's moods'.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and up again; catched it again: or whether his fall enraged him, or how twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O! I warrant, how he mammocked it!
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I saw him run after a gilded butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked it!
Coriolanus 1607
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“Can’t get away if we’re mammocked up in a ditch.”
A Bad Day’s Work Nora McFarland 2010
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I saw him run after a gilded butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his fall enraged him, or how ’twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked it!
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