Definitions for mum

mum mum

Spelling: [muhm]
IPA: /mʌm/

Mum is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in mum (mmu).

Definitions for mum

noun

  1. chrysanthemum.
  2. mother1 .
  3. a strong beer or ale, first made in Brunswick, Germany.
  4. madam.

Idioms

  1. mum's the word, do not reveal what you know (about something); keep silent:

adjective

  1. silent; not saying a word:

interjection

  1. say nothing! be silent!

verb (used without object)

  1. to say “mum”; call for silence.
  2. to act as a mummer.

Origin of mum

1350-1400; Middle English momme; imitative

Examples for mum

He even took a few wobbly first steps (with a little assistance from his mum, of course).

I think maybe it was the justification he used for that and how he treated my mum for having what he thought was an affair.

The family was "happy, but my parents were broke, my mum made my clothes, my dad said we moved when the rent was due," he told me.

Suddenly she is cast adrift without the bank of mum and dad.

You were the little clerk who sat so mum in the corner, and then cried fy on the gleeman.

“mum was living in fear as well we were trapped,” Cumming tells me.

Ye haven't; then I very much doubt if ye'll see him this day, mum.

And if you should chance to meet this party again, remember, mum's the word.'

"I'm afraid as how the house was too quiet for Mr. Grierson, mum," she wound up.

If you please, mum, it's below the waist; I think I can manage with the dummy.

Word Value for mum
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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