Citations:mommick

a mess

 * 1916, Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders, page 294:
 * If the house be in disorder it is said to be all gormed or gaumed up, or things are just in a mommick.
 * 1927, Robert Lindsay Mason, The lure of the Great Smokies, page 127:
 * It is a conglomeration, a "mommick" or "gaum," to use mountain terms, of boiled dough and either apples or peaches with no sugar!
 * 1954, Katharine Macbeth Jones, New Confederate Short Stories, page 167:
 * " a mommick, all right, but she still sets the best supper table in North Carolina."

to mess around

 * 1949, Paul Green, Dog on the Sun: A Volume of Stories, page 129:
 * Now Professor Carrington who was at his typewriter in the house working on his next book had already about lost his patience at the messing and mommicking he'd seen going on through the window.
 * 1953, Paul Green, Dramatic Heritage, page 65:
 * "Billy," he'd say to me, "roll up our sleeves now — we're gonna do some farming." "Real farming, suh?" I'd say. "Real farming, Billy — none of this mommicking."
 * 1969, Paul Green, The Honeycomb, page 55:
 * ([Tapley] seizes a dipper of water from the pail and dashes it at TOMMY, who steps aside and runs away, laughing in the darkness.)
 * LORA. (Angrily springing to her feet.) You always treat him mean.
 * TAPLEY. When I lay hands on him, He'll quit that mommicking about,

either "harass or bother" or "mess around"

 * 2007, Audrey Penn, Blackbeard and the Gift of Silence ISBN 1933718110, page 245:
 * "I wish you'd make up your mind." "At least I have a mind." "So does a tick." "Stop mommicking," whispered Billy.

???

 * 1910, American Magazine, volume 69, page 164:
 * the youth with ears acock that noted the clink-a~linkle of the pawl and ratchet that adjusts the platform of the float, and the hogtrough noises of the water mommicking and slobbering on the piling of the slip;
 * 1991, Bronwyn Williams, Gideon's Fall ISBN 0373286678, page 12:
 * If men had to go through such a mommicking before presenting themselves to society, she thought, the world would quickly come to a screeching halt!