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Noun
1794, F. L. Count Stolberg, Travels in Holland, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily., page 539:[…] but, should any one have the rashness to betray rebellious designs, we have sworn to tear him into as many pieces as we are persons, and we will each smoak a mammock of him in our pipes."
1829, William Blackwood, “Dibdin's Sea Songs; or, Scenes in the Gum-room.”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:The studding-sail server for his hammock,
With the clue-lines he bought him his call,
While ensigns and Jacks in a mammock
He sold to buy trinkets for Poll.
1853, Robert Snow, Notes and Queries: A medium of inter-communication:Is not the phrase a corruption of beaten to a mammock, to a piece, to a scrap, to a fragment? […] The Gloucestershire peasants frequently use the word mammock, which they pronounce "mommock".
Verb
1623, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus:I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and up again; catched it again: or whether his fall enraged him, or how ’twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O! I warrant, how he mammocked it!
1641, John Milton, Of Reformation:to keep off the profane touch of the Laicks, whilst the obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread, as familiarly as his Tavern Bisket