scomm

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

scomm (plural scomms)

(obsolete) A buffoon.
- 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:
  If the Wife was heartily angry before, This Scomm made her Stark Mad
(obsolete) A flout; a jeer; 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scomm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

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