momier

English

Etymology

From French mômier, from Old French momer, mommer (“to mum, to mask oneself”).

Noun

momier (plural momiers)

1. (historical, derogatory) A strict Calvinist in Switzerland, France, or some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “momier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• memoir