Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An idol: from the old belief that Mohammedans were idolaters.
- noun A puppet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
mawmet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
mammet .
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Examples
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‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95} added comma after footnote marker
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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‘simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95}, and
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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