| 释义 |
ˈmumchanceness
[f. mumchance a. + -ness.]
Silence, reticence. Also mumchanciness.
1910‘A. Hope’ Second String xxi. 435 Perhaps his very mum-chanceness was his saving. Glib protestations would have smacked too strongly of the principal to commend the agent. 1920J. Joyce Let. 29 Aug. (1966) III. 17, I am much inconvenienced by their cursed mumchanciness. |