mimmering
English
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of mammering; or a derivation from earlier unrecorded *mimmer, from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren ("to ponder"; > Modern Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”)); or perhaps representing a continuation of Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to remember, commemorate”). See also mammer, mimmerkin.
Adjective
mimmering (comparative more mimmering, superlative most mimmering)
- Doting; dreaming; mammering.
- 1827, G. Darley, Sylvia 64:
- A half-brain'd loon! A mimmering driveller!
- 1827, G. Darley, Sylvia 64: