Brewer's: Mammet

A puppet, a favourite, an idol. A corruption of Mahomet. Mahometanism being the most prominent form of false religion with which Christendom was acquainted before the Reformation, it became a generic word to designate any false faith; even idolatry is called mammetry.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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