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mumm

mumm is the archaic form of mum.

Meaning of mum

Verb

mum (third-person singular simple present mums, present participle mumming, simple past and past participle mummed)

  1. To act in a pantomime or dumb show.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To silence.
    • "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."1857, Hidden Links; Or the Schoolfellows. A Tale, volume 2, page 233

See all 11 meanings of mum

Proper noun capitalized: Mumm

Mumm (plural Mumms)

  1. A surname.

Forms of mumm

Verb
third-person singular presentmumms
present participlemumming
past participlemummed
pastmummed
Proper noun
pluralMumms

Origin of mumm

* From the personal name Mummo, ultimately from a Germanic name corresponding to *mundō (“protection”) + *mōdaz (“courage”). * As a Swabian/Alemannic German surname, from the verb mummen (“to mumble”). Both senses are comparable to Mumme, a spelling variant.

Questions about mumm

What does mumm mean?
Mumm means a surname.
What is mumm the archaic form of?
Mumm is the archaic form of mum.
What part of speech is mumm?
Mumm is a proper noun.

Words near mumm in the dictionary

  1. mumijo
  2. Mumin
  3. Mumins
  4. mumiyo
  5. mumly
  6. mumm
  7. mumma
  8. mumma bear
  9. mumma bears
  10. mumma's boy
  11. mumma's boys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mumm (page history and authors); Mumm (page history and authors); mum (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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