mummingn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈməmɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English mommyng, late Middle English mommynge, late Middle English momyng, late Middle English momynge, late Middle English mummying, late Middle English–1500s mummyng, late Middle English–1500s mummynge, 1500s mumminge, 1500s–1600s moming, 1500s– mumming, 1600s muming, 1800s– mummin (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 mummyn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mum v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mum v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare Dutch momming.

Now chiefly historical.

a. The action of disguising oneself, esp. for festivities; esp. participation in a mummers' play. Also: a performance of mummers.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > a mumming

mumming1417

mummery1465

mumchance1581

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun]

mumming1546

mimica1631

mummering1884

1417 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 658 (MED) [There shall be no] mummyng [during this Feast of Our Lord's Nativity].

1418 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 96 (MED) The Mair and Aldermen chargen..þat no manere persone..walk by nyght in eny manere mommyng, pleyes, enterludes, or eny oþer disgisynges.

c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 360 Þe Duk of Surrey, þe Duke of Excestre..& oþir moo of hir afinite, were accorded to make a mummyng vnto þe King..and þere þay cast to sle þe King yn hir revelyng.

a1456 (c1428) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 672 (MED) A balade made..for a momyng.

a1500 (c1465) in J. Gairdner Three 15th-cent. Chrons. (1880) 28 (MED) A momynge at Wyndsore.

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. ii. f. cxvi Lyke as yf a ryght greate man wolde wantonly walke a mummynge, and dysguyse hymselfe.

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke v. ii. 100 b The disguising and muming that is vsed in Christemas tyme..came oute of the feaste of Pallas.

1618 N. Assheton Jrnl. (1848) 75 At night some companie from Recad came a Mumming.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 152 A goodly mumming and silent stage play.

1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xvi. 147 There is another Custom observed at this Time, which is called among us Mumming.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vi. 222 A sport common among the ancients..consisted in mummings and disguisements.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 309 While the children thus went a-mumming..the fathers took to drinking.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. ii. iv. 271 Of mummers and mumming Eustacia had the greatest contempt.

1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message i. ii. 11 By fraud, by massacre, by torment, Heaven Obscured our Asgard..While Christ a-mumming came in Baldur's weeds.

1969 H. Halpert in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 54 When mumming (i.e. disguising) was legalized once again in Philadelphia..it reappeared in the guise of formal parades.

1991 S. K. Penman Reckoning (1992) xxi. 281 Afterward, there would be dancing and a mumming and a shepherd's play.

†b. to make a mumming of: to treat with levity or contempt. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt

unworthc950

to make scorn at, toc1320

to take in vainc1330

despise1377

rebuke?a1400

despite1481

indign1490

to make a mumming of1523

flock1545

scandalize1566

to make coarse account of1578

misregard1582

overpeer1583

to make a pish at (also of)1593

to make a push at1600

to bite by the nose1602

blurta1625

to piss ona1625

to make wash-way of, with1642

trample1646

huff1677

snouch1761

to walk over (the course)1779

to run over ——1816

snoot1928

shaft1959

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 200 Men of suche maters make but a mummynge.

†c. depreciatively. Ridiculous or elaborate ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual); play-acting, pretence, meaningless show. Cf. mummery n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [noun] > ridiculous or hypocritical

mumming1528

mummery1549

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun]

mumming1528

trumpery1542

mummery1549

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxix^v They thinke that they have done abundauntly ynough for God..yf they be present once in a daye at soch mummynge.

?1547 W. Palmer Poem on Stephen Gardiner in Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. (1929) 6 168 I promyse you he hade a greater audience to here hym redde a story of the scrypture than we hadde to here our mummynge masse and matyns whereat your canons of Poolis toke displeasure.

1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 132 They..practise in consecrated places their schismaticall mumming.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. i. 149 Give him his answer—'Tis no time for mumming.

†d. Acting. Cf. mummer n. 2b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun]

action1540

acting1590

stage-playing1597

interluding1612

play-acting1633

histrionisma1682

theatrics1807

histrionics1824

mumming1861

histrionicism1870

stage play1872

Thespianism1914

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/2 We call strolling acting ‘mumming’, and the actors ‘mummers’. All spouting is mumming.

†2. Inarticulate murmuring; indistinct speech. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > murmuring or muttering

blabberingc1375

mammeringa1425

mumblingc1440

mumming1440

rumbling1440

mutteringc1475

buzzing1532

momblishness1532

hummel-bummel1537

murmuration1541

mumblement1595

babblinga1599

hummering1637

mutter1637

fumble1647

murmur1704

admurmuration1727

slurring1806

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 348 Mummynge, mussacio, vel mussatus.

1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. sig. Hh ij b Scarse had the legates done, when mumblynge mumminge [L. varius fremor] much doth rise.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church xix. f. 211^v Hee doeth there set you forth maruelous trimlie, all the reasons, why the Priest doeth so trimme him selfe in such mumming garments, when he goeth about to play his parte.

1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love 43 Methings a foppish mumming Dress and Vizard, As Ill becomes a Soldier as a Priest.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 298 How I am to convey her out of this crowd..in such a mumming habit.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. ii. iv. 279 I can get boy's clothes—at least all that would be wanted besides the mumming dress.

1931 A. Uttley Country Child xi. 139 When my father was young and his father before him, they did a play, a mumming play, with no words.

1963 A. Brown & P. Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 78 Possibly he was writing a mumming poem on the subject.

1985 ELH 52 539 At Christmas the mumming captains and Lords of Misrule held similar powers within their revels.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mumming
释义	mummingn. Brit. /ˈmʌmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməmɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English mommyng, late Middle English mommynge, late Middle English momyng, late Middle English momynge, late Middle English mummying, late Middle English–1500s mummyng, late Middle English–1500s mummynge, 1500s mumminge, 1500s–1600s moming, 1500s– mumming, 1600s muming, 1800s– mummin (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 mummyn. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mum v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mum v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare Dutch momming. Now chiefly historical. 1. a. The action of disguising oneself, esp. for festivities; esp. participation in a mummers' play. Also: a performance of mummers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > a mumming mumming1417 mummery1465 mumchance1581 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] mumming1546 mimica1631 mummering1884 1417 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 658 (MED) [There shall be no] mummyng [during this Feast of Our Lord's Nativity]. 1418 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 96 (MED) The Mair and Aldermen chargen..þat no manere persone..walk by nyght in eny manere mommyng, pleyes, enterludes, or eny oþer disgisynges. c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 360 Þe Duk of Surrey, þe Duke of Excestre..& oþir moo of hir afinite, were accorded to make a mummyng vnto þe King..and þere þay cast to sle þe King yn hir revelyng. a1456 (c1428) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 672 (MED) A balade made..for a momyng. a1500 (c1465) in J. Gairdner Three 15th-cent. Chrons. (1880) 28 (MED) A momynge at Wyndsore. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. ii. f. cxvi Lyke as yf a ryght greate man wolde wantonly walke a mummynge, and dysguyse hymselfe. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke v. ii. 100 b The disguising and muming that is vsed in Christemas tyme..came oute of the feaste of Pallas. 1618 N. Assheton Jrnl. (1848) 75 At night some companie from Recad came a Mumming. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 152 A goodly mumming and silent stage play. 1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xvi. 147 There is another Custom observed at this Time, which is called among us Mumming. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vi. 222 A sport common among the ancients..consisted in mummings and disguisements. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 309 While the children thus went a-mumming..the fathers took to drinking. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. ii. iv. 271 Of mummers and mumming Eustacia had the greatest contempt. 1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message i. ii. 11 By fraud, by massacre, by torment, Heaven Obscured our Asgard..While Christ a-mumming came in Baldur's weeds. 1969 H. Halpert in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 54 When mumming (i.e. disguising) was legalized once again in Philadelphia..it reappeared in the guise of formal parades. 1991 S. K. Penman Reckoning (1992) xxi. 281 Afterward, there would be dancing and a mumming and a shepherd's play. †b. to make a mumming of: to treat with levity or contempt. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt unworthc950 to make scorn at, toc1320 to take in vainc1330 despise1377 rebuke?a1400 despite1481 indign1490 to make a mumming of1523 flock1545 scandalize1566 to make coarse account of1578 misregard1582 overpeer1583 to make a pish at (also of)1593 to make a push at1600 to bite by the nose1602 blurta1625 to piss ona1625 to make wash-way of, with1642 trample1646 huff1677 snouch1761 to walk over (the course)1779 to run over ——1816 snoot1928 shaft1959 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 200 Men of suche maters make but a mummynge. †c. depreciatively. Ridiculous or elaborate ceremony (formerly used esp. of religious ritual); play-acting, pretence, meaningless show. Cf. mummery n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [noun] > ridiculous or hypocritical mumming1528 mummery1549 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun] mumming1528 trumpery1542 mummery1549 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxix^v They thinke that they have done abundauntly ynough for God..yf they be present once in a daye at soch mummynge. ?1547 W. Palmer Poem on Stephen Gardiner in Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. (1929) 6 168 I promyse you he hade a greater audience to here hym redde a story of the scrypture than we hadde to here our mummynge masse and matyns whereat your canons of Poolis toke displeasure. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 132 They..practise in consecrated places their schismaticall mumming. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. i. 149 Give him his answer—'Tis no time for mumming. †d. Acting. Cf. mummer n. 2b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] action1540 acting1590 stage-playing1597 interluding1612 play-acting1633 histrionisma1682 theatrics1807 histrionics1824 mumming1861 histrionicism1870 stage play1872 Thespianism1914 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/2 We call strolling acting ‘mumming’, and the actors ‘mummers’. All spouting is mumming. †2. Inarticulate murmuring; indistinct speech. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > murmuring or muttering blabberingc1375 mammeringa1425 mumblingc1440 mumming1440 rumbling1440 mutteringc1475 buzzing1532 momblishness1532 hummel-bummel1537 murmuration1541 mumblement1595 babblinga1599 hummering1637 mutter1637 fumble1647 murmur1704 admurmuration1727 slurring1806 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 348 Mummynge, mussacio, vel mussatus. 1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. sig. Hh ij b Scarse had the legates done, when mumblynge mumminge [L. varius fremor] much doth rise. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church xix. f. 211^v Hee doeth there set you forth maruelous trimlie, all the reasons, why the Priest doeth so trimme him selfe in such mumming garments, when he goeth about to play his parte. 1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love 43 Methings a foppish mumming Dress and Vizard, As Ill becomes a Soldier as a Priest. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 298 How I am to convey her out of this crowd..in such a mumming habit. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. ii. iv. 279 I can get boy's clothes—at least all that would be wanted besides the mumming dress. 1931 A. Uttley Country Child xi. 139 When my father was young and his father before him, they did a play, a mumming play, with no words. 1963 A. Brown & P. Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 78 Possibly he was writing a mumming poem on the subject. 1985 ELH 52 539 At Christmas the mumming captains and Lords of Misrule held similar powers within their revels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mummingadj. Brit. /ˈmʌmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməmɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s– mumming, 1600s muming. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mum v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < mum v. + -ing suffix². That mums (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [adjective] mumming1582 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue l Fortune..Who like a mumming mate so throwes the Dice. 1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii. sig. G2 And all the grisly sprights of griping hell, With muming looke hath dogd thee since thy birth. 1783 J. O'Keeffe Dead Alive i. 13 A mumming magician! a secondhand son of a sorcerer! a hey-cockolorum conjuror! a wizard with a pig-tail! 1832 F. A. Butler Jrnl. 5 Dec. (1835) II. 26 What a mass of wretched mumming mimicry acting is! 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvi. 155 She enacted sundry grimaces, uttered mumming sentences. ?1905 J. Joyce Holy Office (single sheet) I must not accounted be One of that mumming company. 1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel xiii. 142 This dying year Could beg a mumming doctor for a cure. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) iii. 65 Piloo was preceded by musicians..and a pair of writhing, mumming singer-dancers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1417adj.1582
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mummingn.

Compounds

mummingadj.