| 单词 | mumping day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmumping day mumping day n. English regional (now historical) St Thomas's Day, 21 December, traditionally a day on which poor people go begging for alms from house to house. ΚΠ 1817 T. D. Fosbroke Brit. Monachism (ed. 2) v. 74 St. Thomas's Day. On this day, called Mumping-day, the poor in Herefordshire go around the parishes, begging corn, &c. 1881 E. Sutton N. Lincs. Words in Orig. Gloss. (Eng. Dial. Soc. Publ. No. 32) 119 Mumping-day is St. Thomas's day. 1998 Western Morning News (Electronic ed.) 10 Dec. There was Mumping Day on December 21... On this shortest day of the year the poor folk of the Westcountry..begged from house to house. < as lemmas |
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