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单词 mumps
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mumpsn.1

Forms: 1500s mumpes, 1500s–1600s mumps.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Or perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mumpsimus n.; mump v.1, -s suffix2.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps shortened < mumpsimus n. (compare sense 1b s.v.), or perhaps < mump v.1 (compare sense 3 s.v.) + -s suffix2.
Chiefly derogatory. Obsolete.
An old woman. Also used as a form of address or term of mock endearment for a woman.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
1576 G. Whetstone Castle of Delight 20 in Rocke of Regard A horseface then, a tawnie hyde appearde, A wrinkled mumpes, a foule mishapen thing.
1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Tiijv It is as sightly, for a toothelesse Mare to eate Marchpane, as for suche a wrinckled Mumpes to fawle a bylling.
1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd ii. sig. C3v Diuine Mumps, prety Pastorella. View more context for this quotation
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. H4 Not such another as I was, Mumps; nor will not be.
1695 tr. Martial ii. xli. 106 Weep, if you're prudent, old mumps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

mumpsn.2

Brit. /mʌmps/, U.S. /məmps/
Forms: 1500s–1600s mumpes, 1500s– mumps.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mump n.1
Etymology: < the plural of mump n.1, apparently with reference to the facial appearance caused by the swellings characteristic of the disease. Compare slightly later mumpsick adj.With sense 2, perhaps compare slightly earlier mubble fubbles n., and also mulligrub n.
Now usually with singular agreement.
1.
a. Originally: any of various diseases of humans or animals causing swellings in the neck or throat. Later: spec. an infectious disease of humans caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by fever and inflammation of the salivary glands, esp. the parotids, occasionally with orchitis, meningoencephalitis, or pancreatitis. Also (now colloquial) with the.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > swollen glands > mumps
mumps1592
branks1794
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H2v The Danish tongue..is able to make any Englishman haue the mumpes in his mouth.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A disease or swelling in the necke called the mumps.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xiv. 59 It restraineth the mumps or inflammation of the Amygdales.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxi. 136 If any of you haue a sheepe sicke of the giddies, or an hogge of the mumps.
1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed 8 Gangrenaes, Vlcers, wounds, and mortall stabs, Illiaca passioes, Megrims, Mumps, or Mange.
1758 B. Gooch Cases Surg. 17 A Species of tumor called by the common people the Mumps.
1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 174 The parotitis suppurans, or mumps with irritated fever, is at times epidemic among cats, and may be called parotitis felina... The parotitis or mumps had not long before prevailed amongst human beings in that part of the country.
1830 T. Hood Love has not Eyes in Comic Melodies ii. 3 He thinks her face an angel's, altho' its quite a frump's, Like a toad a-taking physic or a monkey in the mumps.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 178 Mumps is chiefly characterized anatomically by inflammation of one or both parotid glands.
1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood vi. 224 Once in harvest-time I had the mumps and was unable to swallow any food except milk.
1978 Lochaber News 31 Mar. 1/1 Mumps are causing havoc among school attendances in Lochaber.
1999 A. Desai Fasting, Feasting (2000) iii. 33 Suffering as he did from an endless procession of ills—he had already run through mumps, measles, chicken pox, bronchitis, malaria, 'flu, asthma, nosebleeds and more.
b. In extended use. Obsolete.
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1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iv. 108 These are the soul's mumps and measles, and..those who have not caught them, cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxviii. 292 My niece has been exposed to the dreadful pluribus-unum mumps.
2. In later use with the. A fit of melancholy or ill humour. Now English regional.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
dumpa1535
mubble fubbles1589
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
mood1609
blues1741
mopes1742
gloom1744
humdrums1757
dismals1764
horror1768
mournfuls1794
doldrum1811
doleful1822
glumps1825
jim-jams1896
katzenjammer1897
the sniffles1903
mopery1907
joes1916
woofits1918
cafard1924
jimmies1928
the blahs1969
downer1970
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
terret1515
momurdotesc1540
the sullens1580
pirr1581
pet1590
snuff1592
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
geea1605
mood1609
miff1623
tetch1623
frumps1671
strunt1721
hump1727
tiff1727
tift1751
huff1757
tig1773
tout1787
sulk1792
twita1825
fantigue1825
fuff1834
grumps1844
spell1856
the grumbles1861
grouch1895
snit1939
mardy1968
moody1969
strop1970
sull1972
cream puff1985
mard1998
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 45 The sunne was so in his mumps vppon it, that it was almost noone before hee could goe to cart that day.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hh4v/1 Come pre'thee leave this sadnesse; This walking by thy selfe to see the Divell, This mumps, this Lachrimæ.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ (at cited word) He has the Mumps, pro Irasci, Indignari tacitâ præsertim Iracundiâ.
1780 J. André Cow Chace ii. 21 Lest their Chieftain Washington, Should mourn them in the mumps, The fate of Withrington to shun, They fought behind the stumps.
1861 F. W. Robinson Under Spell III. 109 I keep Kitty from getting the ‘mumps’.
a1903 J. Denwood in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 98/1 [Cumberland] He's sec a divil as Ah nivver saw, he's allus in t'mumps.

Compounds

mumps virus n. the paramyxovirus that causes mumps.
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1934 Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Pathol. 15 313 It was possible to passage a strain of mumps virus through monkeys through six generations.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 21 Mar. 682/1 The immunizing of children in the early grades of school would immediately reduce the reservoir of mumps virus in the school population and in the community.
2002 Arch. Virol. 147 243 (title) Molecular characterisation of two mumps virus genotypes circulating during an epidemic in Lithuania from 1998 to 2000.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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