mome
/moʊm/obsolete
mome is a noun meaning “A dull or stupid person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-M-E, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mome is momes.
What does mome mean?
noun
- 1
archaicA dull or stupid person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mome?
- UK /məʊm/
- US /moʊm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mome?
Mome appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mome come from?
Ultimately from the name of Momus, god of mirth, through Latin and Old French.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).