Mummer
71mumps — [16] The dialect noun mump meant ‘grimace’; and the use of its plural mumps for the disease is thought to have been originally an allusion to the distorted expression caused by the swollen neck glands. Mump itself is presumably related to the… …
72guiser — ˈgīzər noun ( s) Etymology: Middle English (northern dialect) gysar, from gysen, v. + ar, er er chiefly Scotland : a person in disguise : mummer; especially : a Christmas mummer …
73mum|chance — «MUHM CHANS, CHAHNS», adjective, adverb. Especially British. in silence; speechless; tongue tied; mum: »The gunman…had left with £7,500 while the smirking staff stood mumchance (Punch). ╂[< obsolete English mumchance, noun, a certain game of… …
74mum|mer|y — «MUHM uhr ee», noun, plural mer|ies. 1. a performance of mummers. 2. any useless or silly show or ceremony: »Archbishop Grindal long hesitated about accepting a mitre from dislike of what he regarded as the mummery of consecration (Macaulay).… …
75Flapdragon — Flap drag on, n. 1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. The thing thus caught and eaten. Johnson. [1913 Webster] Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer s plays, and …
76geezer — gee zer, n. [Dial. corrupt. of {Guiser} a mummer.] A queer old fellow; an old chap; sometimes, an old woman. [Contemptuous, Slang.] Syn: bloke. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
77Guiser — Guis er (g[imac]z [ e]r), n. [From {Guise}.] A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …
78Mime — Mime, n. [L. mimus, Gr. ?, akin to ? to imitate, to mimic: cf. F. mime. Cf. {Mimosa}.] 1. A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner; an ancient Greek or Roman form of farce. [1913 Webster… …
79mimer — mim er, n. 1. A person who performs in a mime. Syn: mime, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist. [PJC] 2. A mimic. [PJC] …
80Oxhead — Ox head , n. [Cf. {Hogshead}.] Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. [1913 Webster] Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead? Marston. [1913 Webster] …
