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Webster 1913 Edition
mammothrept
mam′mo-thrept
(măm′mō̍-thrĕpt)
, Noun.
[Gr.
μαμμόθρεπτος
; μάμμα
grandmother + τρέπειν
to nourish.] A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.
[R.]
O, you are a more
mammothrept
in judgment. B. Jonson.
Definition 2024
mammothrept
mammothrept
English
Noun
mammothrept (plural mammothrepts)
- (archaic) A spoilt child.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Fountaine of Selfe-love, IV.3:
- O, you are a meere mammothrept in judgement, then. Why, doe you not obserue how excellently the dittie is affected in euerie place?
- 1947, Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks:
- She concludes, "you better apologize." The day I apologize to you, you contumacious mammothrept, there will be two moons in the sky.
- 1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander:
- ‘And having seen the parents I am impatient to see this youth, the fruit of their strangely unattractive loins: will he be a wretched mammothrept?’
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Fountaine of Selfe-love, IV.3: