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MUMPERS

Specialty Definition: MUMPERS

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Literature

Mumpers Beggars, Leland calls it a gipsy word. In Norwich, Christmas waits used to be called "Mumpers." In Lincolnshire, "Boxing-day" is called Mumping-day (q.v.). To mump is to beg. Beggars are called the "Mumping Society."
"A parcel of wretches hopping about by the assistance of their crutches, like so many Lincoln's Inn Fields mumpers, drawing into a body to attack [infest or beset] the coach of some charitable lord."- Ned Ward: The London Spy, part v. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

MUMPERS. Originally beggars of the genteel kind, but since used for beggars in general. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MUMPERS

Specialty definitions using "MUMPERS": MUMPERS HALL, Mumping DayRATTLING MUMPERS. (references)

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Anagrams: MUMPERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-m-m-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: mumper, summer.

-2 letters: mumps, mures, muser, perms, purse, rumps, serum, sperm, sprue, spume, super.

-3 letters: emus, mems, mump, mums, mure, muse, perm, pure, purs, rems, reps, rues, rump, rums, ruse, spue, spur, suer, sump, supe, sure, umps, user.

-4 letters: ems, emu, ers, mem, mum, mus, per, pes, pur, pus, rem, rep, res, rue, rum.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-m-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: premiums, supermom.

 

+2 letters: emporiums, imperiums, presummit, supermoms.

 

+3 letters: perimysium, spermatium.

 

+4 letters: parameciums, promethiums, sempervivum, suprematism.

 

+5 letters: computerdoms, praseodymium, sempervivums, spermagonium, superpremium, suprematisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MUMPERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 55 4D 50 45 52 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..-    --    .--.    .    .-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01010101 01001101 01010000 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#85 &#77 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0055 004D 0050 0045 0052 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47554750395253

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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