mammet

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- An image, a dressed-up figure; a doll, a puppet.

- A contemptible or hateful person; a weakling, a physically or mentally feeble person. Now chiefly English regional.


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Origin:
Middle English (in an earlier sense). From Anglo-Norman maumet, reduced form of mauhoumet, Old French mahomet, mahommet idol, a use of Mahomet, resulting from the common medieval Christian belief that the prophet Muhammad was worshipped as a god




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