mumming
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Verb edit
mumming
- present participle and gerund of mum
- present participle and gerund of mumm
Noun edit
mumming (countable and uncountable, plural mummings)
- A pantomime or dumb show.
- Synonym: mummering
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 280–281:
- The vassals or tenants collected in the hall for Christmas masking and mumming—the peasant gathering that May-day called out upon the green, drew together ranks whose distance, in our day, occasions forgetfulness on one side, and discontent on the other.
- 2011, Susan Lauffer O'Hara, The Theatricality of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus:
- The court masque has its origin in medieval court mummings.