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Definition: Mummery |
MummeryNoun1. Meaningless ceremonies and flattery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mummery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Etymology: Mummery \Mum"mer*y\, noun; plural Mummeries. [French expression momerie, of Dutch or German origin. See Mumm.]. (references) |
Synonym: MummerySynonym: flummery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Vagary, tomfoolery,vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade. |
Amusement | Fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk. |
Deception | Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing; (deceiver); disguise, disguisement; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours. |
Ostentation | Mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mummery |
| English words defined with "mummery": Mommery, Mummeries. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mummery": Momiers. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He left the stage quickly and rid himself of his mummery and passed out through the chapel into the college garden |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Mummery" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Mummery" is used about 20 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 (proper) | 70% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mummery": Lockhart-mummery. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mere mummery | 7 |
mummery | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mummery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Shfaqje Boshe. (various references) | |
Arabic | مهرجان رقص شعبي, تكلف (affect, affectation, artificiality, attitudinize, constrain, mannerism, pose, preciosity), تصنع (affectation, attitudinize, industrialize, make up, mannerism, pose, pretend, prim). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Представление, Пантомима, Маскарад (Masquerade), Безсмислен Церемониал. (various references) | |
Czech | Maškara (fright). (various references) | |
French | Momerie. (various references) | |
German | Vermummung (covering of the face, disguise). (various references) | |
Greek | όεταμφίεση (Masquerade). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Némajáték (dumb show, mime, pantomime, pantomimic). (various references) | |
Italian | Pantomima (pantomime). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ummerymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mascarada (masque, masquerade), pantomina (ballet, pantomimic dance), palhaçada (clownery, drollery), cerimônia ridícula. (various references) | |
Romanian | Mascaradã (farce, Masquerade, pageant), Pantomimã (by-play, dumb show, pantomime), Ceremonie Ridicolã. (various references) | |
Russian | Пантомима. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pantomima (pantomime). (various references) | |
Spanish | Mistificación (hoax, hocus pocus, mystification), Mascarada (masque, Masquerade), Pantomima (panto, pantomime), Farsa (charade, farce, humbug, Masquerade), Ceremonia Ridícula. (various references) | |
Swedish | Pantomimspel, Komedi (comedy). (various references) | |
Thai | การแส"งละครใบ้. (various references) | |
Turkish | Maskeli Oyun, Maskaralık (antics, buffoonery, charade, drollery, fandangle, farce, foolery, mock, playfulness, ridiculousness, tomfoolery). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Пантоміма, итуальне 'идовище. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Mummery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fummery, Mammern, mammery, momzer, Monnery, Mugmer, mumer, Mumir, mumiya, Mummerys, mumzer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mummery" (pronounced 'Mum"mer*y'): Almery, formerly, Mommery, Numerally, Numerary, Stemmery, summery. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-m-m-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: mummer. | |
-2 letters: mummy, rummy. | |
-3 letters: mumm, mure. | |
-4 letters: emu, mem, mum, rem, rue, rum, rye, umm, yum. | |
-5 letters: em, er, me, mm, mu, my, re, um, ye. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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