mome n.
a fool, a simpleton.
Ralph Roister Doister V ii: It was none but Roister Doister, that foolish mome. | ||
Nice Wanton Aii: I had rather be hanged were, Then I would syt quakyng like a mome for feare. | ||
Hist. of Jacob and Esau I i: No, that were in vaine: Alas, good simple mome. | ||
Flodden Field in Ballads vii 73: Away with this foolish mome . | ||
Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act II: I must keep company with none but a sort of Momes and Hoydens that know not chalk from cheese. | ||
Gul’s Horne-Booke 5: Growtnowles and Moames will in swarmes fly buzzing about thee. | ||
Laugh and Be Fat 15: That man may well be call’d an idle mome. | ||
Works (1869) III 12: And so like Coles dog the vntutor’d mome, / Must neither goe to Church nor bide at home. | ‘Brood of Cormorants’ in||
‘Wooing of Robin & Joan’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 310: ‘You must’ (Sir Clown) is for the king; / And not for such a mome. | ||
Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 271: A stout tongued Lawyer is but a mome, / Compared to a stout file-leader. | ‘The Contented’ in||
Wit and Drollery 92: Sir Clown, is for a King, / And not for zuch a Mome. | et al. ‘The West-Country Batchelors Complaint’||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 131: At this the Knight look’d like a Mome. |