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noun
A mess, a disorderly state or thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Appalachia, Southern-US, dialectal
Qualifier: chiefly North Carolina
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To harass or bother (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
Qualifier: including Ocracoke Island North Carolina
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Synonyms: annoy, vex, aggravate, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off, badger, bait, beleaguer, dog, besiege, beset, chevy, give someone grief, harass, harry, hound, pester, pick at, plague
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To beat up or rough up (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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Synonyms: do over, work over
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Appalachia, Southern-US, dialectal
Qualifier: chiefly North Carolina
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Synonyms: botch, mess up, ball up, blight, bumble, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crab, deprave, disrupt, disturb, foil, fuck up, jack up, mar, mishandle, mommick, pollute, put a crimp in, queer, ruin, screw up, soil, sour, spoil, stain, undo, upset, turn upside down, upset the applecart, vitiate
Antonyms: none provided
History
Apparently a variant of mammock.
