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† ˈdummerer slang. (obs. exc. arch.)
Also 6 dommerar, 7 -er.
[f. dumb a.]
The cant name for a beggar who pretended to be dumb.
1567Harman Caveat xii. (1869) 57 The Dommerars are lewd and most subtyll people; the moste part of these are Walch men. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 274 It is thought he will turne Dummerer, he practises already, and is..many times taken speechlesse. 1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush ii. i, Higgen your orator..That whilom was your Dommerer. 1725in New Cant. Dict. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, The dummerar, whose tongue had been cut out by the Algerines. 1931J. Buchan Blanket of Dark xvi. 304 There was a troop of crowders in the little town, and as many cozeners and dommerers as if it had been an abbey-gate. |