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mummering

mummering is the present participle and gerund of mummer.

Meaning of mummer

Verb

mummer (third-person singular simple present mummers, present participle mummering, simple past and past participle mummered)

  1. Synonym of mum (“to act in pantomime or dumb show”).
    • There is a general agreement that niggering [blackface performance] took over from mummering to keep up the old custom.1976, Cake and Cockhorse, volume 7, page 220
    Synonyms:
    mum

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Noun

mummering (countable and uncountable, plural mummerings)

  1. Synonym of mumming (“pantomime”).
    Synonyms:
    mumming

Synonyms of mummering

Forms of mummering

pluralmummerings

Questions about mummering

What does mummering mean?
Mummering means synonym of mumming (“pantomime”).
What is mummering the present participle and gerund of?
Mummering is the present participle and gerund of mummer.
What part of speech is mummering?
Mummering is a noun.
What is the plural of mummering?
The plural of mummering is mummerings.

Words near mummering in the dictionary

  1. mummeite
  2. Mummel
  3. mummer
  4. mummered
  5. mummeries
  6. mummering
  7. mummerings
  8. mummers
  9. Mummerset
  10. Mummert
  11. Mummerts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mummering (page history and authors); mummer (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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