Mummer

Definition: Mummer

Mummer

Noun

1. An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.

Date "mummer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references)

Etymology: Mummer \Mumm"er\, noun. [Compare to Old French mommeur. See Mumm, and compare to Momier.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	MUMMER. The mouth. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mummer

Synonyms: mime (n), mimer (n), pantomimer (n), pantomimist (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
The Drama	Mummer, guiser, guisard, gysart , masque.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mummer

English words defined with "mummer": Guiser. (references)

Etymologies containing "mummer": geezer. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mummer" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (mummer).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Master Mummer (1915)
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Domain	Title
Books	The Mummer (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Mummer (reference) Mummer [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Clown; clowny; funny; horn; honk; honking; joker; antic; buffoon; comedian; comic; cut-up; dolt; droll; farceur; fool; funnyman; gagman; gagster; harlequin; humorist; jester; jokesmith; jokester; madcap; merry-Andrew; merrymaker; mime; mountebank; mummer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Mummer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mummer" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mummer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		person me maskë. (various references)

Bulgarian		актьор (actor, playactor, player, thespian). (various references)

Czech		převleèený. (various references)

French		mime. (various references)

German		mime (mime, thespian). (various references)

Greek		μασκαράσ (masquerader), μίμοσ (mime, mimic). (various references)

Hungarian		némajátékos (dummy, mimic). (various references)

Italian		guitto, attore di pantomima. (various references)

Manx		mummer. (various references)

Pig Latin		ummermay

Portuguese		mascarado (disguised, larval, masked), ator de pantomina, ator (actor, impersonator, impostor, performer, player). (various references)

Romanian		mascã (cloak, countenance, cover, face, grille, mask, masker, masquerader, screen), comediant (comic, dissembler, hypocrite), actor de pantomimã (mime, pantomimist). (various references)

Russian		фигляр (cutup, merry andrew, mountebank, mugger, zany). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pantomimičar (pantomimist). (various references)

Spanish		mimo (indulgence, mime, pantomime), máscara (blind, disguise, mascara, mask). (various references)

Swedish		skådis, mimartist. (various references)

Thai		นักแส�"งละครใบ้. (various references)

Turkish		maskeli oyuncu, maskara (antic, buffoon, butt, fool, jester, laughing stock, laughingstock, mascara, masquerader, wanton, zany). (various references)

Ukrainian		учасник різдвяної пантоміми, фігляр (antic, buffoon, juggler). (various references)

Vietnamese		diễn viên kịch câm nhu�"m đượp?. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mummer": mummeries, mummers, mummery. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mummer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cummer, makmur, Mammern, Mohmar, Momme, momser, momzer, Mugmer, muma, mumber, mume, mumer, Mumir, Mummee, mumzer, murmer, numer, nummer, rummer, unmer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mummer" (pronounced 'Mumm"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-m-m-m-r-u"
	-2 letters: mumm, mure.
	-3 letters: emu, mem, mum, rem, rue, rum, umm.
	-4 letters: em, er, me, mm, mu, re, um.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-m-m-r-u"
	+1 letter: mummers, mummery.
	+3 letters: brummagem, midsummer, mummeries.
	+4 letters: brummagems, immurement, memorandum, midsummers, summertime.
	+5 letters: immurements, memorandums, multimember, summertimes.
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