scomm

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noun

An idiot: a buffoon.

OriginLatin scomma ← Ancient Greek σκῶμμα →
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Meanings

nounscomm (plural scomms)

plural scomms

  1. obsoleteAn idiot: a buffoon.

    If the Wife was heartily angry before, This Scomm made her Stark Mad

    1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
  2. obsoleteA flout; a jeer, joke; a gibe; a taunt.

    1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels His vain ostentation is worthily scoffed with [the] scomme of the orator.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekσκῶμμα“jest, gibe”
  2. Latinscomma“a taunt, jeer, scoff”
  3. Englishscomm

Latin scomma (“a taunt, jeer, scoff”), from Ancient Greek σκῶμμα (skômma, “jest, gibe”).

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Chicago

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