Words at Play : 22 Charming Words for Nasty People
Definition:
a spoiled child
Examples:
"O, you are a meere mammothrept in judgement then." – Ben Jonson, The Workes of Beniamin Ionson, 1616
About the Word:
Mammothrept comes to the English language from the Greek word mammothreptos, which means, delightfully enough, "child brought up by his grandmother".
It hardly matters whether children raised by a grandmother are indeed more likely to be spoiled; such a fine and descriptive word as mammothrept deserves to be used to describe spoiled children regardless of who has raised them.
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