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81mum|ble|ty-peg — «MUHM buhl tih PEHG noun. a game in which the players in turn flip a knife from various positions, trying to make it stick in the ground; the loser originally having to pull a peg out of the ground with his teeth. ╂[earlier mumble the peg] …
82Mum|bo Jum|bo — «MUHM boh JUHM boh», the guardian genius of a native African village in western Sudan, represented by a masked medicine man who fends off evil and keeps the women in subjection: »Mumbo Jumbo, God of the Congo…will hoo doo you (Vachel Lindsay).… …
83mum|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).… …
84mum|mer — «MUHM uhr», noun. 1. a person who wears a mask, fancy costume, or disguise for fun: »Six mummers acted in the play at Christmas. 2. an actor. 3. an actor in one of the rural plays traditionally performed in England and elsewhere at Christmas:… …
85mum|mi|chog — «MUHM ih chog», noun. U.S. a killifish. ╂[American English < Narraganset moamitteaǵ (literally) they are many] …
86mum|mi|fi|ca|tion — «MUHM uh fuh KAY shuhn», noun. 1. the act or process of mummifying: »The thighbone of a dead African king, preserved for ritual uses, represents…a diffusion of Egyptian mummification (Melville J. Herskovitz). 2. the state of being mummified …
87mum's the word! — ˌmum s the ˈword! idiom (informal) used to tell sb to say nothing about sth and keep it secret Main entry: ↑mumidiom …
88Mum (Shirl) Smith — Shirley Smith (22 November 1921 – 28 April 1998), better known as Mum Shirl, was a prominent Aboriginal Australian and activist committed to justice and welfare of Aboriginal Australians. She was a founding member of the Aboriginal Legal Service …
89mum's the word — SAY NOTHING, keep quiet, don t breathe a word, don t tell a soul, keep it secret, keep it to yourself, keep it under your hat; informal don t let on, keep shtum, don t let the cat out of the bag. → mum * * * mum s the word Complete silence or… …
90Mum and the Sothsegger — (Richard the Redeles) (15th century) Mum and the Sothsegger is an early 15th century English alliterative poem in the PIERS PLOWMAN tradition of social commentary. The poem survives in a single manuscript (British Museum MS Additional 41666),… …
