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Personification of mockery
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momus
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Nicholas Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery ), is a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired . For nearly thirty years he has been releasing, to marginal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"humorously disagreeable person," 1560s, from Latin, from Greek Momos , nme of the god of ridicule and sarcasm (Greek momos , literally "blame, ridicule, disgrace," of unknown origin); also used in English as personification of fault-finding and captious ...
Usage examples of momus.
Momus, south of the Town of Tarzak, lies the village of Sina nestled between the Fake Foot river delta and the glittering expanses of the Sea of Baraboo, named in honor of the ship that stranded the original circus on Momus two centuries before.
Every true critic is a hero born, descending in a direct line from a celestial stem by Momus and Hybris, who begat Zoilus, who begat Tigellius, who begat Etcaetera the Elder.