Dialectal To harass or bother (someone or something).
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The big woman wheeled on the tumbling children in the car. "Billie-Dove Newsome, min' you manners. Ramon-Novarro, quit mommicking de dog!" She turned back.1960, Vinnie Williams, Walk Egypt, page 178:
Using a bit of Down East vernacular, as if talking about a family member, she adds, “Leo's used to me mommicking [teasing] him—treating him like a baby.”2007, Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks, →ISBN:
Evelith Strange writes to Mrs. Makely from Altruria: Do you still keep on murdering and divorcing, and drowning and burning, and mommicking, and maiming people by sea and land? Has there been any war since I left?1968, William Dean Howells, The Altrurian romances, volume 20, page 430
"Mommick him up good, because you've got to go to jail anyhow."1998, Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings, page 24:
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"He was too mean for Hell, having people mommicked and gaumed up the way he did.”2014, Richard Chase, American Folk Tales and Songs, →ISBN, page 21:
I heard him hollar as he sank out of sight, "My Lord Honey, haint I been momicked this night."about 1980, Connie McElroy, 'Twas a Night Afore Chistmas, Son: or A Harkers Island Christmas:
"I don't fault her for effort," said one man, the oldest at the table, "but she's wanting to do it all by herself, then she mommicks thing up."1994, Gail Godwin, A Mother and Two Daughters, →ISBN, page 420:
And anyway, his presence seemed to mommick up electricity. So he stuck to walking.2009, Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist, →ISBN:
As soon as she walks up the porch steps and opens the screen door, she knows that Henry is already home. Amid the noisy mommick, she can sense his humming presence.2010, Julianna Baggott, The Madam: A Novel, →ISBN, page 21:
"It's all such an awful mommick..." Anne shrugged. "Trapped on a sinking ship..."2012, Christine Blevins, The Turning of Anne Merrick, →ISBN: