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dummerer

dummerer noun: someone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging.

Noun

dummerer (plural dummerers)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging.
    • every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers , Abraham men, &c.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Forms of dummerer

pluraldummerers

Origin of dummerer

Related to dumb.

Questions about dummerer

What does dummerer mean?
Dummerer means someone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging.
What part of speech is dummerer?
Dummerer is a noun.
What is the plural of dummerer?
The plural of dummerer is dummerers.

Words near dummerer in the dictionary

  1. Dumler
  2. Dumlers
  3. Dumlog
  4. Dumm
  5. Dummer
  6. dummerer
  7. dummerers
  8. Dummers
  9. Dummerston
  10. Dummett
  11. Dummettian

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