mummern.

Brit.

/ˈmʌmə/, U.S.

/ˈməmər/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s mummar, late Middle English–1500s mvmmer, late Middle English–1600s mommer, late Middle English– mummer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mum v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mum v. + -er suffix¹. In sense 2 perhaps after Middle French, French †momeur masker, jester (1192 in Old French as momeor , c1400 in sense ‘person who plays dice in a mask’); compare Spanish momero (first half of the 16th cent.), and also Middle Dutch mommer (Dutch mommer ), Middle Low German mummer : see further discussion s.v. mum v.

1. A person who mutters or murmurs. Now Scottish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > murmuring or muttering > one who mutters

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mumblerc1530

mutterer1552

murmurera1770

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 348 Mummar, mussator.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxv^v A neglecter of my dutye, a secrete mummer of suche thynges whiche touche both the inheritance of your croune & the honor of your realme.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. ii. 381 To such mummeris we answered, ‘That no just Authoritie culd think the selff contempned, becaus that the treuth was by us maid manifest’.

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 116 Mummer, one who reads, speaks, or sings in a low, indistinct tone.

1935 W. Soutar Poems in Scots 26 It's no for makars to upvant Themsel's; lat mummers mak a mant O' a' their makins.

a. A person who acts in a mummers' play or (originally) in a mime. Also in extended use. See mummers' play n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime

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mute1579

puppeta1592

pantomime1606

pantomimic1617

mumchance1694

mime1784

pantomimist1833

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > mummer

mummera1456

disguiser1481

guiser1488

guisard1626

guise-dancer1846

a1456 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 695 (MED) Nowe filoweþe a lettre..brought by a poursuyaunt in wyse of mommers desguysed to fore þe Mayre of London.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 216 These men..purposed to falle on þe kyng sodeynly at Wyndesore vndir þe colour of mummeres in Cristmasse tyme.

c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. v^v/1 Outake mommers and our [?read other] mynstrels.

1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 Persones..wyth Vysoures..disgysed or apparelde as Mommers.

a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 426 And over all this ye haue browght in a rabyll Of Latyne mvmmers and sectes desseyvabyll.

1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction 110 A melancholike Mummer, or a simple sot.

1648 Hunting of Fox 24 Like mommers in a mask, make a fair shew, but speak nothing.

1693 T. D'Urfey Richmond Heiress v. v. 60 Oh, these are Mummers..that having a frolick this Evening, desire to give us a share on't, the Subject is the stealing an Heiress.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 102 Peel'd, patch'd, and pieball'd, linsey-woolsey brothers Grave mummers, sleeveless some, and shirtless others.

1779 H. Cowley Albina iii. 36 Better have told the story..to the mummers, who infest our halls; To be by them personify'd, on eves And holidays.

1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress II. 232 People think it must be pickelherring, or some such strolling mummers come to exhibit to the folk during the evening.

1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 16 Some sporting of a band of mummers headed by a scarlet Mefistofelo.

1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 94 Twelfth-night had come and gone, and life..seemed a trifle flat... But yester-eve and the mummers were here!

1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool xviii. 186 There were about fifteen lads in our troupe of Mummers.

1969 J. D. A. Widdowson & H. Halpert in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 152 You couldn't let anybody see who you were when you were out with the mummers.

1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart i. 64 They strolled about the village as mummers in weird animal costumes.

b. slang (chiefly depreciative). An actor, esp. a bad one.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun]

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game-player1533

comedy player1550

stage-player1561

actor1566

histrion?1566

comediant1568

representer1579

stager1580

presentera1586

histrio1589

stageman1589

gamester1596

player-man1596

Roscius1600

stagerite1602

theaterian1602

comedian1603

scenic1612

representant1622

play-actor1633

parta1643

histrionic1647

representator1653

artist1714

mummer1773

actor-manager1826

Thespian1827

impersonator1830

personifier1835

player-manager1895

thesp1962

luvvie1988

1773 R. Jephson Let. 7 Oct. in Private Corr. D. Garrick (1835) I. 579 Digges, when I saw him, was one of the most spiritless, inarticulate mummers I ever beheld.

1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xviii The most miserable mummer, that ever disgraced the walls of a Theatre, could not have been a stronger drawback than Mr. Kemble.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 369 I, for one, will not call the man a Hypocrite! Hypocrite, mummer, the life of him a mere theatricality?

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/2 We call strolling acting ‘mumming’, and the actors ‘mummers’.

1895 J. Hollingshead My Lifetime I. xv. 141 The poor played-out mummer..could not complete his task.

1936 Stage June 35/2 Its company includes many of the nation's great mummers.

1993 M. Clynes Grail Murders (BNC) 213 The old hag was really a mummer mouthing lines taught to her and, once her part was played, she too had to die.

Derivatives

ˈmummerdom n. the theatrical world.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1893 K. Grahame Pagan Ess. 71 Our poor erring brothers and sisters..of Mummerdom.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mummer
释义	mummern. Brit. /ˈmʌmə/, U.S. /ˈməmər/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s mummar, late Middle English–1500s mvmmer, late Middle English–1600s mommer, late Middle English– mummer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mum v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mum v. + -er suffix¹. In sense 2 perhaps after Middle French, French †momeur masker, jester (1192 in Old French as momeor , c1400 in sense ‘person who plays dice in a mask’); compare Spanish momero (first half of the 16th cent.), and also Middle Dutch mommer (Dutch mommer ), Middle Low German mummer : see further discussion s.v. mum v. 1. A person who mutters or murmurs. Now Scottish. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > murmuring or muttering > one who mutters mummer1440 mumblerc1530 mutterer1552 murmurera1770 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 348 Mummar, mussator. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxv^v A neglecter of my dutye, a secrete mummer of suche thynges whiche touche both the inheritance of your croune & the honor of your realme. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. ii. 381 To such mummeris we answered, ‘That no just Authoritie culd think the selff contempned, becaus that the treuth was by us maid manifest’. 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 116 Mummer, one who reads, speaks, or sings in a low, indistinct tone. 1935 W. Soutar Poems in Scots 26 It's no for makars to upvant Themsel's; lat mummers mak a mant O' a' their makins. 2. a. A person who acts in a mummers' play or (originally) in a mime. Also in extended use. See mummers' play n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime mummera1456 mute1579 puppeta1592 pantomime1606 pantomimic1617 mumchance1694 mime1784 pantomimist1833 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > mummer mummera1456 disguiser1481 guiser1488 guisard1626 guise-dancer1846 a1456 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 695 (MED) Nowe filoweþe a lettre..brought by a poursuyaunt in wyse of mommers desguysed to fore þe Mayre of London. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 216 These men..purposed to falle on þe kyng sodeynly at Wyndesore vndir þe colour of mummeres in Cristmasse tyme. c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. v^v/1 Outake mommers and our [?read other] mynstrels. 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 Persones..wyth Vysoures..disgysed or apparelde as Mommers. a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 426 And over all this ye haue browght in a rabyll Of Latyne mvmmers and sectes desseyvabyll. 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction 110 A melancholike Mummer, or a simple sot. 1648 Hunting of Fox 24 Like mommers in a mask, make a fair shew, but speak nothing. 1693 T. D'Urfey Richmond Heiress v. v. 60 Oh, these are Mummers..that having a frolick this Evening, desire to give us a share on't, the Subject is the stealing an Heiress. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 102 Peel'd, patch'd, and pieball'd, linsey-woolsey brothers Grave mummers, sleeveless some, and shirtless others. 1779 H. Cowley Albina iii. 36 Better have told the story..to the mummers, who infest our halls; To be by them personify'd, on eves And holidays. 1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress II. 232 People think it must be pickelherring, or some such strolling mummers come to exhibit to the folk during the evening. 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 16 Some sporting of a band of mummers headed by a scarlet Mefistofelo. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 94 Twelfth-night had come and gone, and life..seemed a trifle flat... But yester-eve and the mummers were here! 1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool xviii. 186 There were about fifteen lads in our troupe of Mummers. 1969 J. D. A. Widdowson & H. Halpert in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 152 You couldn't let anybody see who you were when you were out with the mummers. 1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart i. 64 They strolled about the village as mummers in weird animal costumes. b. slang (chiefly depreciative). An actor, esp. a bad one. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] playera1400 game-player1533 comedy player1550 stage-player1561 actor1566 histrion?1566 comediant1568 representer1579 stager1580 presentera1586 histrio1589 stageman1589 gamester1596 player-man1596 Roscius1600 stagerite1602 theaterian1602 comedian1603 scenic1612 representant1622 play-actor1633 parta1643 histrionic1647 representator1653 artist1714 mummer1773 actor-manager1826 Thespian1827 impersonator1830 personifier1835 player-manager1895 thesp1962 luvvie1988 1773 R. Jephson Let. 7 Oct. in Private Corr. D. Garrick (1835) I. 579 Digges, when I saw him, was one of the most spiritless, inarticulate mummers I ever beheld. 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xviii The most miserable mummer, that ever disgraced the walls of a Theatre, could not have been a stronger drawback than Mr. Kemble. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 369 I, for one, will not call the man a Hypocrite! Hypocrite, mummer, the life of him a mere theatricality? 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/2 We call strolling acting ‘mumming’, and the actors ‘mummers’. 1895 J. Hollingshead My Lifetime I. xv. 141 The poor played-out mummer..could not complete his task. 1936 Stage June 35/2 Its company includes many of the nation's great mummers. 1993 M. Clynes Grail Murders (BNC) 213 The old hag was really a mummer mouthing lines taught to her and, once her part was played, she too had to die. Derivatives ˈmummerdom n. the theatrical world.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1893 K. Grahame Pagan Ess. 71 Our poor erring brothers and sisters..of Mummerdom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mummerv.¹ Brit. /ˈmʌmə/, U.S. /ˈməmər/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mum v., -er suffix⁵. Etymology: Apparently < mum v. + -er suffix⁵, perhaps as alteration of murmur v. Compare Middle Dutch mommeren. rare. intransitive and transitive = murmur v. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > sound faintly or quietly [verb (intransitive)] > make murmuring sounds murmurc1395 croona1500 mustle1570 mute1570 simmera1637 hummer1691 remurmur1697 hum1730 mummer1763 whimper?1795 mutter1797 brum1844 rumour1894 1763 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) IV. 277 The Mob may mummer or may rise Sawney has carried his Excise. 1890 A. Weir Romance Sir Richard 87 By the fire a priest Stands mummering on fresh faggots. 1999 Monitor (Kampala) (Electronic ed.) 11 Nov. ‘My father how shall I shoot this type of RPG,’ he mummered before falling off with a thud. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mummerv.² Brit. /ˈmʌmə/, U.S. /ˈməmər/, Canadian English /ˈmʌmər/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mummer n. Etymology: < mummer n. Compare earlier mummering n. Chiefly Canadian (Newfoundland). intransitive. To take part in a mumming. Usually in present participle, esp. in to go mummering. Cf. janney n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > mum [verb (intransitive)] muma1456 guisard1815 mummer1901 guiser1907 janney1964 1901 Christmas Bells (St. John's, Newfoundland) 11/1 At night they went ‘mummering’, or had a dance. 1905 N. Duncan Dr. Grenfell's Parish 136 When the lads and maids decked themselves out in fantastic fashion and went mummering from cottage to cottage. 1967 Bk. Newfoundland IV. 236/2 After a non-stop day outdoors we would dress-up at night and go mummering (or mumming). 1969 L. J. Chiaramonte in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 91 The single male mummer..does not always accept a drink at the houses he mummers in. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440v.¹1763v.²1901
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mummern.

Derivatives

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