different between hammock vs mammock

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Arawak hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæm?k/

Noun

hammock (plural hammocks)

1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     ...the poore ?aylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) re?ting their tyred bodies...

2. (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Derived terms

• hammock nettings

Translations

Verb

hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)

1. (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
   • 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article)

     "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."

2. (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
   • 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter

     "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."

3. (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
   • 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game

     "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."

Further reading

• hammock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Noun

hammock c

1. hammock

Declension

English

Etymology

From mam (of obscure origin) +? -ock (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mam?k/

Noun

mammock (plural mammocks)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) A shapeless piece; a fragment.

Verb

mammock (third-person singular simple present mammocks, present participle mammocking, simple past and past participle mammocked)

1. (obsolete outside dialects, chiefly North Carolina, transitive) To tear to pieces.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, First Folio 1623:

     I saw him run after a gilded Butterfly, & when he caught it, he let it go againe, and after it againe, and ouer and ouer he comes, and vp againe: catcht it again: or whether his fall enrag'd him, or how 'twas, hee did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he mammockt it.

Usage notes

• In use with varying pronunciation and spelling in tidewater North Carolina among at least the Lumbee, Ocracoke Islanders and Downeasters or Core Sounders.

Related terms

• mommick