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mummed

mummed


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mumm  \Mumm\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mummed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Mumming}.]  [D.  mimmen  to  mask,  mom  a  mask;  akin  to  G.  mumme 
  disguise;  prob.  of  imitative  origin,  and  akin  to  E.  mum, 
  mumble,  in  allusion  to  the  indistinctness  of  speech 
  occasioned  by  talking  from  behind  a  mask.  Cf  {Mumble}, 
  {Mummery}.] 
  To  sport  or  make  diversion  in  a  mask  or  disguise;  to  mask. 
 
  With  mumming  and  with  masking  all  around  --Spenser.