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Definition: MUMPER |
MUMPERNoun1. A beggar; a begging impostor. |
Date "MUMPER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1796. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Petitioner | Beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter. |
Poverty | Poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling; pauvre diable; fakir, schnorrer; homeless person. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MUMPER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mumper | Last name | 300 | 23,551 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MUMPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lypës (beggar, bum, Cadger, lack-all, mendicant, moocher, Randy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | просяк който лъже. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επαίτησ (beggar, mendicant, panhandler, prog), αγύρτησ (charlatan, fortune teller, hoodwinker, humbug, impostor, mountebank, quack, rogue, swindler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | koldus (beggar, mendicant, panhandler, pauper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpermay mendigo (beggar, cadger, panhandler, peddlar, tramp, vagrant), pedinte (beggar, cadger, lazarus, mendicant, panhandler, pauper, peddlar, tramp). (various references) amãrât (downcast, down-hearted, embittered, long-faced, poor man, sadly, sorry, unhappy, wretch). (various references) нищий (almsman, beggar, dog poor, lazarus, mendicant, panhandler, pauper), попрошайка (cadger, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, scrounger). (various references) prosjak (beggar, mendicant, panhandler). (various references) persona abatida (mope), gorrón (bummer, cadger, journal, pebble, pivot, scrounger, sponger). (various references) старець (abraham-man, beggar, cadger, elder, panhandler), людина в поганому настрої. (various references) người h nh khất (lazar, lazarus), người ăn m y (beggar, lazar, lazarus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MUMPER": mumpers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MUMPER" (pronounced mu"mper) |
| 4 | -u" m p er | bumper, dumper, jumper, lumper, Thumper. |
| 3 | -m p er | camper, damper, distemper, hamper, pamper, scamper, shrimper, simper, Stamper, swamper, tamper, temper, whimper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-m-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: mump, mure, perm, pure, rump. | |
-3 letters: emu, mem, mum, per, pur, rem, rep, rue, rum, umm, ump. | |
-4 letters: em, er, me, mm, mu, pe, re, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-m-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: mumpers, premium. | |
+2 letters: emporium, imperium, plummier, premiums, supermom. | |
+3 letters: emporiums, imperiums, presummit, supermoms. | |
+4 letters: paramecium, perimysium, promethium, spermatium. | |
+5 letters: computerdom, hyperimmune, parameciums, promethiums, sempervivum, suprematism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 55 4D 50 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- -- .--. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01010101 01001101 01010000 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M U M P E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0055 004D 0050 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)475547503952 |
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