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keep stumm

keep stumm is the alternative spelling of keep shtum.

Meaning of keep shtum

Verb

keep shtum (third-person singular simple present keeps shtum, present participle keeping shtum, simple past and past participle kept shtum)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive) To not tell anyone; especially, to keep silent about something that may be sensitive or secret.
    • If I tell you, you have to promise to keep shtum about it.

Forms of keep stumm

third-person singular presentkeeps stumm
present participlekeeping stumm
past participlekept stumm
pastkept stumm

Questions about keep stumm

What is keep stumm the alternative spelling of?
Keep stumm is the alternative spelling of keep shtum.

Words near keep stumm in the dictionary

  1. keep someone sweet
  2. keep someone up at night
  3. keep someone up late
  4. keep soul and body together
  5. keep straight
  6. keep stumm
  7. keep tabs on
  8. keep telling yourself that
  9. keep term
  10. keep the baby
  11. keep the ball rolling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keep stumm (page history and authors); keep shtum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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