Definitions for mummer

mummer mum·mer

Spelling: [muhm-er]
IPA: /ˈmʌm ər/

Mummer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in mummer (emmmru).

Definitions for mummer

noun

  1. a person who wears a mask or fantastic costume while merrymaking or taking part in a pantomime, especially at Christmas and other festive seasons.
  2. an actor, especially a pantomimist.

Origin of mummer

First recorded in 1400-50, mummer is from the late Middle English word mommer. See mum2, -er1

Examples for mummer

They ought at least, to give us a moorish dance, or some other mummer!

I persuaded the head of our mummer troop to write out their play as it was handed down to him by his predecessors.

It is as though we caught Ajax masquerading as a mummer, or Aeschylus dressed up in cap and bells.

If the simpleton believes, the mummer has won the game, but he has not simulated real foolishness; he has simulated navet.

mummer's they shrunk so she couldn't wear 'em, and Jessy couldn't nuther.

But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death.

A steamer was bearing my lady-love into the presence of her mummer.

He was so much bigger than mummer that it was hard to believe that they were own cousins.

After some unholy admiration, she sent to speak to the mummer.

He had at hand a surer ladder to fame than the mummer's art.

Word Value for mummer
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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