Keep Mum

Definition: Keep Mum

Keep Mum

Verb

1. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Keep Mum

Taciturnity

Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute.

Keep mum if you want 'em to bite -- D.B.H. Credit: Library of Congress.

A night session of the "keep mum" committee : will it fall?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Albanian

hesht (be quiet, hush, pipe down, shut up, silence, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سكت (hold one's tongue, hush, quiet, reduce, shut up, subside, whist), ‏صمت (clamant, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, keep quiet, keep the ball rolling, keeping quiet, muteness, pause, pipe down, quietness, reticence, shut up, silence, still, taciturnity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мълча си (hold one's tongue). (various references)

Czech

mlèet jako nìmý, držet jazyk za zuby (hold one's tongue). (various references)

French

se taire, ne pas piper un mot. (various references)

Greek 

λουφάζω (bask, cower, skulk). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשתוק (be silent, hold ones peace, hold one's tongue, shut up). (various references)

Hungarian

mélyen hallgat. (various references)

Pig Latin

eepkay ummay

Romanian

nu sufli o vorbã. (various references)

Russian 

помалкивать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

biti ćutljiv. (various references)

Spanish

callarse (be quiet, dry up, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, hush, keep quiet, pipe down, quieten, shut up). (various references)

Turkish

susmak (be quiet, be tongue-tied, hold one's peace, hush, keep quiet, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten, shush, shut up, stop speaking), sessiz durmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

зберігати та�"мницю. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: emeu, keep, kemp, meek, meme, mump, peek, peke, puke.

-4 letters: eke, eme, emu, kep, kue, mem, mum, pee, uke, umm, ump.

-5 letters: em, me, mm, mu, pe, um, up.