momo

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊməʊ/, enPR: mō'mō

A plate of momo from Nepal

From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo).

momo (plural momos or momo)

1. A type of dumpling from Nepal, Ladakh or Tibet made with a simple flour and water dough and filled with meat, vegetables or cheese.
   • 2007 July 1, “Far East of the U.N.”, in New York Times‎:

     Many dishes show a direct influence of China or India; for example, momos, or Tibetan dumplings, look like Chinese pot-stickers.

   • 2022 January 25, Christina Morales, “How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way Into America’s Heart”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     She heated handpies and tofu in her off-campus apartment, and at her home in India, she heats momos, dehydrates mangoes and cooks whole, shelled peanuts.

2. (India, slang, offensive) A person from Northeast India.
   • 2017 May 23, Alana Golmei, “Let’s talk about racism”, in Hindustan Times, Delhi:

     Since I come from the North-eastern part of India myself and belong to a minority race, I too have suffered from racism, at least in its milder forms. I’ve been called "chinky", "momo", "chowmein", and more.

   • 2021 June 9, “Northeast Indians DISRESPECTED once again with 'momo' slur”, in India Today Northeast:

     Now, it is a well-known fact that many Northeast Indians are derogatorily called 'momos' after the dish by mainland Indians for their round-ish features.

• mo-mo

Clipping and reduplication of moron.

momo (plural momos)

1. (US, slang, derogatory) A moron.
   • 1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):

     The probability on one-four-reel machine is a million and a half to one. On three machines in a row, it's in the billions. It cannot happen… would not happen, you fuckin' momo!

• Momo (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jonathon Green (2024) “momo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• Eric Partridge (2005) “momo”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1310.

momo

1. already

momo

1. to chew (in order to swallow)

• mabe

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

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momo (plural momòot)

1. bee

• Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 40
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 244

momo

1. Rōmaji transcription of もも

From Sanskrit माम (māma, “uncle”).

momo m

1. (family) maternal uncle

• Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎, pages 13-36

momo

1. a type, a kind, a species, a breed, a variety, a race, a genre

• momo entry at the online Māori Dictionary

• Hyphenation: mo‧mo

momo m (plural momos)

1. King Momo (character representing the king of carnival in Latin America)
2. momo

Uncertain:

• from Vulgar Latin *mōmus, from Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos, “god of satire and mockery”), from μῶμος (mômos);
• from an imitative Proto-Germanic root, whence Dutch mom (“mask”), German Mumme (“mask”) - see mummer.
• from Old French momer (“to wear a mask”), related to momon (“mask”), from an child's word expressing astonishment. Compare English mum.[1]

Cognate to Portuguese momo, Aragonese momo, Catalan mom, French momon (“mask”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmomo/ [ˈmo.mo]
• Rhymes: -omo
• Syllabification: mo‧mo

momo m (plural momos)

1. funny face; silly face
2. alternative/ironic spelling of meme

• “momo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From apparent reduplication of the first syllable of multo.

momo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. Alternative form of mumo