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mummed |
1 definition found 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.
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