MOME (hence SOLEMOME, SOLEMONE, and SOLEMN). "Grave."


Carroll's definition, printed in 1855, cited by The Annotated Alice

Mome (?), n. [Cf. Mumm, Momus.]

A dull, silent person; a blockhead.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

 

© Webster 1913.

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