Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mawmenny

/ˈmɔːməni/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: maw-men-ny
IPA: /ˈmɔːməni/

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…]a remark certainly borne out by Wynnere's list, which includes: wild geese, bitterns, snipe, larks, linnets (sprinkled with sugar!), woodcock, woodpecker, teal, and titmice, the meal to be rounded off with rabbits, pasties, pies, mawmenny and custard pies!"
"What is "different" here is the absence of the more elaborate aristocratic favorites of earlier times. such as Mawmenny."
"There was no fixed order for the different sweet potages, however: one finds mawmenny at least once at every course, and the other types are also placed randomly."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English mawmene, from Anglo-Norman maumenee, an alteration of Arabic مأمونية (maʔmūniyya) after malmener, maumener (“to mistreat”).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: maumenee, مأمونية, ء م ن

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

How do you pronounce mawmenny?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɔːməni/.
What does mawmenny mean?: A dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.
Where does mawmenny come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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