says Cotgrave, is a Momus, find-fault, carping fellow. So called from Momus, the god of raillery.
“Or cessent donques les momes,
De mordre les escrits miens.”
J. du Bellay: A.P. de Ronsard.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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