mimmering

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adjective

Doting; dreaming; mammering.

OriginMiddle Dutch mimmeren ← Old English mymerian →
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Meanings

adjectivemimmering (comparative more mimmering, superlative most mimmering)

comparative more mimmering · superlative most mimmering

  1. Doting; dreaming; mammering.

    A half-brain'd loon! A mimmering driveller!

    1827, G. Darley, Sylvia 64

Origin

  1. Old Englishmymerian
  2. Middle Dutchmimmeren
  3. Englishmimmering

Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of mammering; or a derivation from earlier unrecorded *mimmer, from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren ("to ponder"; > Modern Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”)); or perhaps representing a continuation of Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to remember, commemorate”). See also mammer, mimmerkin.

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APA

mimmering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimmering

MLA

“mimmering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimmering. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mimmering,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimmering.

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