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ˌmumˈbudget
†1. = mum int., a., and n.1 Obs.
Perh. orig. the name of some children's game in which silence was required.
a1564Becon Display. Pop. Mass Wks. iii. 47 b, Nowe ye playe mumme budget and scilence glumme. a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) C iij b, But mumbouget for Carisophus I espie In haste to come hether. [1598Shakes. Merry W. v. ii. 6, I come to her in white, and cry Mum; she cries Budget, and by that we know one another.] 1611Cotgr., Demeurer court, to play at Mumbudget, or be at a Nonplus. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. i. (1630) 146, I was Mum-budget, and durst not open my lips to him..in that businesse. 1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 208 Have these Bones ratled, and this Head So often in thy quarrel bled? Nor did I ever winch or grudge it, For thy dear sake. (Quoth she) Mum budget.
2. Phr. to come mumbudgeting ‘to come clandestinely, secretly’ (E.D.D.). (See also quot. 1909.) dial.
1872Hardy Under Greenw. Tree I. ii. ii. 115 There was this to be said for him, that you were quite sure he'd never come mumbudgeting to see ye, just as you were in the middle of your work, and put you out with his anxious trouble about you. Ibid. II. iv. ii. 110 Now, don't come mumbudgeting so close again. 1909Daily Chron. 30 Apr. 6/5 In Mr. Hardy's ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’..mumbudgeting..seems to mean rather ‘fussily’, a sense in which the word budget is still used in the Midlands. 1939N. Marsh Overture to Death xiii. 139 Whatever be the matter with you, then, mum-budgeting so close to my apron strings?
¶3. With allusion to budget n.
a1630J. Taylor (Water P.) A Bawd Wks. 1630 ii. 97 The magazin of taciturnitie, the mumbudget of silens, the cloath⁓bag of councell. |