Definitions for MUMPS

MUMPS mumps

Spelling: [muhmps]
IPA: /mʌmps/

Mumps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in MUMPS (mmpsu).

Definitions for MUMPS

noun

  1. an infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling of the parotid and usually other salivary glands, and sometimes by inflammation of the testes or ovaries, caused by a paramyxovirus.

verb (used with object)

  1. to mumble; mutter.
  2. to cheat.

verb (used without object)

  1. to sulk; mope.
  2. to grimace.
  3. to beg.

Origin of MUMPS

First recorded in 1590-1600; mump1 + -s3

Examples for MUMPS

It is the family of man—because where measles and mumps and pertussis are concerned, we are all connected.

mumps begins with pain and swelling below the ear on one side.

One evening, he saw her again in the theatre with 'mumps,' as she called her husband.

Not had measles, or chicken pox, or mumps, or any of those things yet?

If this were England, I should say that an epidemic of mumps has broken out; but of course it cannot be that.

Measles and mumps; you cannot prevent them in Nations either.

The woman who generally sees to it had mumps, and I substituted.

His jaws looked as they may have done when he had the mumps.

It cheered him in the measles, it comforted him in the mumps.

She laughed and called to mumps to come and unfasten her veil.

Word Value for MUMPS
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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