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dummerers

dummerers is the plural of dummerer.

Meaning of dummerer

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

Questions about dummerers

What is dummerers the plural of?
Dummerers is the plural of dummerer.

Words near dummerers in the dictionary

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

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