mumchancen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmʌmtʃɑːns/,

/ˈmʌmtʃans/, U.S.

/ˈməmˌtʃæns/

Forms: 1500s momchance, 1500s momchaunce, 1500s mommechance, 1500s momme chaunce, 1500s mumchaunce, 1500s mume chaunce, 1500s mumme chaunce, 1500s–1600s mumschance, 1500s– mumchance, 1600s mummechaunce, 1800s– mumpchance (English regional); also Scottish pre-1700 mumchance, pre-1700 mumschance, pre-1700 mumschanse, pre-1700 mwmchance, pre-1700 mwmschance.

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch mommecanse.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch mommecanse, mommekantse, mommecanche a dice game traditionally played during carnival, also ‘masquerade, mumming’ (Dutch mommekans , in 16th cent. also in extended sense ‘a slim chance’; < mommen (see below) + canse chance n.), Middle Low German mummenkanze , mummenschanze , mumschanze ( < mummen (see below) + schanze chance n.), or early modern German momschanz (16th cent.; German Mummenschanz , Mummschanz ; < mummen (see below) + schanz chance n.).Middle Dutch mommen , Middle Low German mummen , and late Middle High German mummen are all attested in the sense ‘a game of chance, a dice game’; compare Middle French mommon dice game played in a mask and disguise, without talking (1480), masquerade (1528; French momon ; < mommer : see mum v.). The compound forms thus apparently represent secondary compounds in which the second element also denotes a game of chance. Extended use to denote the practice of masquerade and mumming probably reflects subsequent association of the compounds with verbs corresponding to mum v.

A. n.

1. (a) A dice game resembling hazard. Now historical. (b) In extended use: a chance, a hazardous venture (cf. hazard n. and adj. Phrases 3). Now English regional (rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games

rafflec1405

passagec1425

treygobet1426

mumchance1528

trey-trip1564

lots?1577

novum?1577

fox-mine-host1622

in and in1630

merry main1664

snake1688

pass-dice1753

chicken hazard1781

Shaking in the Shallow1795

sequin hazard1825

chuck-a-luck1836

Newmarket1837

chicken1849

poker dice1870

under and over1890

sweat1894

crown and anchor1902

Murrumbidgee1917

beetle1936

liar dice1946

Yahtzee1957

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. diiij To playe at the cardes and dyce, Some of theym are nothynge nyce, Both at hasard and momchaunce.

1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo i. f. 7 Ready..to abandon thy company, to forsake Venice, to forsweare my country, to sette..al that I haue at a mumme chaunce.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller Induct. sig. A3^v Gallant squires, haue amongst you: at mumchance I meane not, for so I might chaunce come to short commons.

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. C2^v I thoght I had bin at Mum-chance my bones ratled so with iaunting?

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. iv. sig. M Nor play with Coster-mongers at Mum-chance, Tray-trip, God make you rich..but keepe The Gallant'st company, and the best Games.

1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 116 Do you conceive they will be better pleased when they shall be told, that upon like occasions you are at Mum-chance or Stool-ball?

1824 J. R. Planché Woman never Vext ii. i. 11 Steph. Dice, dice, mine Host!.. Shall we..handle the bones? Sharpe. Passage, novum, mumchance—what you will.

1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 222 Mumchance, by mere accident, ‘'twas a mumchance’.

1932 R. Macaulay They were Defeated i. xii. 90 Shall I show you my new cribbage, or will you try primero or mumchance?

2002 www.bvt.org.uk 26 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) Queen Elizabeth I often won at card games, not because she was good, but people were too scared to not let her win! Try playing this favourite Tudor card game called Mumchance.

†2. Silence. to play mumchance: to keep a dogged silence. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > refuse to speak

to play mumchance1551

to dummy up1926

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > remaining obstinately mute > a dogged silence

mumchance1551

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cvij^v He played momme chaunce and wolde make none answere.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mumchaunce or silence.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxvii. f. 283 He began to do the part which she had commaunded, playing Mumchaunce, and vsing other signes, that he would do his duetie, accordynge to hir demaund.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 198/1 Mumchance... A game. Who can stay silent the longest.]

†3. Scottish. Masquerade; mumming. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

mumming1417

mummery1465

mumchance1581

1581–2 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 229 Jhone Gilleis, doctour in Jhone Blakis schole, oblist himself nocht to pas in mwmschance after supper to mak playes or vse siclyke vaniteis heirafter.

1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. vi. sig. M8 They haue..gone to mumchances, mumries, & vnknawin language.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 87 At evin our soueranis maid the maskrie and mumschance, in the quhilk the quenis grace, and all hir Maries and ladies were all cled in men's apperrell.

4. A person who acts in a mime or dumbshow; (hence) a person who has nothing to say. Also used as a nickname, or as the type of a silent person. Now English regional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > one who does not speak

silentiary1611

mum1666

mumchance1694

strong silent man1839

taciturnist1887

oystera1910

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime

mummera1456

mute1579

puppeta1592

pantomime1606

pantomimic1617

mumchance1694

mime1784

pantomimist1833

1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus iv. xi, in tr. Plautus Comedies 114 Why stand ye like a Mum~chance? What are ye tongue-ty'd?

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mum-chance, one that sits mute. He looks like Mum-chance that was Hang'd for saying of nothing.

1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iii. i. 36 He's as slow in speech as aunt Margery, when she's reading Thomas Aquinas, and stands gaping like—Mumchance.

a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 16 What did God make tha vor? Speak, mumchance.

1798 J. O'Keeffe Doldrum ii. i, in Dramatic Wks. IV. 492 Why you good-for-nothing mum-chance—why don't you say something? Are we to let Mrs. Auburne have all the prate to herself?

1827 M. Edgeworth Grinding Organ i. viii. 14 in Little Plays for Children (1859) 274 It's your own fault that you stand like mum chance there, and that your husband is so ill mannered.

1866 J. Bowring Lang. I. v. 36 Mumchance, a silly, silent person.

1894 W. Raymond Young Sam & Sabina xv. 155 Why, 't have a-made uu a proper mumchance, sim-zo.

B. adj.

Silent, mute; tongue-tied. Frequently in to sit (also stand, etc.) mumchance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective]

unspeakinga1382

speechless1390

mutec1400

dumb1406

silenta1425

peaceablec1425

secretc1440

of few wordsa1500

tongue-tied1529

mum1532

closec1540

strait-laced1546

tongue-dumb1556

incommunicable1568

sparing1568

inconversable1577

retentive1599

wordless1604

mumbudget1622

uncommunicable1628

monastica1631

word-bound1644

on (also upon) the reserve1655

strait-mouthed1664

oyster-like1665

incommunicative1670

mumchance1681

speechless1726

taciturnous1727

tongue-tacked1727

monosyllabic1735

silentish1737

untalkative1739

silentious1749

buttoned-up1767

taciturn1771

close as wax1772

untittletattling1779

reticent1825

voiceless1827

say-nothing1838

unremonstrant1841

still1855

unvocal1858

inexpansive186.

short-tongued1864

non-communicating1865

tight-lipped1876

unworded1886

chup1896

tongue-bound1906

shut-mouthed1936

zip-lipped1943

shtum1958

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 3 Jan. 2/1 Conscience tthat [sic] was so clamorous before, is Mumchance, and says nothing to the matter.

1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding i. iv. 4 He stood mumchance, and spoke never a living syllable.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. ix. 213 I always speak to gentlefolks that speak to me; I've no notion of sitting mum chance, when gentlemen are so civil as to speak genteel to one.

1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 250/1 Set him [sc. an author] on top of a stage-coach, he will make no figure; he is mum-chance, while the slang wit flies about.

1839 S. Lover Hall Porter ii. iii. 26 (The ante-room is full of company, who sit in groups, whispering.) Mrs. B. (Aside.) I never did see such a mumchance set.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 248 Have they no liberty, no will, no right to speak? Are they obliged to sit mumchance?

1884 H. C. Merivale Florien i. ii. 28 That fellow 'prentice of thine, who has been as mum-chance all this while as a mute at a funeral.

1915 L. Abercrombie End of World in Georgian Poetry, 1913–15 198 When there comes a passenger among us, One who has heard what's stirring out beyond, 'Tis a grutchy mumchance fellow in the dismals!

1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 133 For my part I remained always stupefied and mumchance.

1989 L. Clarke Chymical Wedding 48 I stood mumchance, in slight shock, as I watched him make off to greet newcomers.

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

mumchancev.

Brit.

/ˈmʌmtʃɑːns/,

/ˈmʌmtʃans/, U.S.

/ˈməmˌtʃæns/

Forms: 1600s 1800s– mumchance; also Scottish pre-1700 mumschance.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mumchance n.

Etymology: < mumchance n. Compare Middle Dutch mommecansen (Dutch mommekansen to play dice), Middle Low German mummenschanzen to take part in a carnival procession.

Now English regional.

†1. intransitive. To masquerade. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > be or go in disguise [verb (intransitive)]

mask1579

mumchance1606

to show (also hang out) false colours1655

masquerade1677

to parade as1887

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall vii. sig. C1^v [At funerals] in steed of mourning in the dust, as they did oft-tymes, we mumchance and mourgean in such dilicate duilles.

2. intransitive. English regional. To keep silent, to remain sullenly silent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]

to hold one's tonguec897

to keep one's tonguec897

to be (hold oneself) stilla1000

to say littleOE

to hold one's mouthc1175

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

to keep (one's) silence?c1225

to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275

stillc1330

peacec1395

mum1440

to say neither buff nor baff1481

to keep (also play) mum1532

to charm the tonguec1540

to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546

hush1548

to play (at) mumbudgeta1564

not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590

to keep a still tongue in one's head1729

to sing small1738

to sew up1785

let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814

to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824

to choke back1844

mumchance1854

to keep one's trap shut1899

to choke up1907

to belt up1949

to keep (or stay) shtum1958

shtum1958

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 41 Why don't you speak? What do you stand mumchancing there for?

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 153 Don't sit mumchancing there by yourself.

a1903 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 201/1 Read the newspaper aloud, do not mumchance.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 198/1 Mumchance now! Not a wodd ter onnybody.

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

单词	mumchance
释义	mumchancen.adj. Brit. /ˈmʌmtʃɑːns/, /ˈmʌmtʃans/, U.S. /ˈməmˌtʃæns/ Forms: 1500s momchance, 1500s momchaunce, 1500s mommechance, 1500s momme chaunce, 1500s mumchaunce, 1500s mume chaunce, 1500s mumme chaunce, 1500s–1600s mumschance, 1500s– mumchance, 1600s mummechaunce, 1800s– mumpchance (English regional); also Scottish pre-1700 mumchance, pre-1700 mumschance, pre-1700 mumschanse, pre-1700 mwmchance, pre-1700 mwmschance. Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch mommecanse. Etymology: < Middle Dutch mommecanse, mommekantse, mommecanche a dice game traditionally played during carnival, also ‘masquerade, mumming’ (Dutch mommekans , in 16th cent. also in extended sense ‘a slim chance’; < mommen (see below) + canse chance n.), Middle Low German mummenkanze , mummenschanze , mumschanze ( < mummen (see below) + schanze chance n.), or early modern German momschanz (16th cent.; German Mummenschanz , Mummschanz ; < mummen (see below) + schanz chance n.).Middle Dutch mommen , Middle Low German mummen , and late Middle High German mummen are all attested in the sense ‘a game of chance, a dice game’; compare Middle French mommon dice game played in a mask and disguise, without talking (1480), masquerade (1528; French momon ; < mommer : see mum v.). The compound forms thus apparently represent secondary compounds in which the second element also denotes a game of chance. Extended use to denote the practice of masquerade and mumming probably reflects subsequent association of the compounds with verbs corresponding to mum v. A. n. 1. (a) A dice game resembling hazard. Now historical. (b) In extended use: a chance, a hazardous venture (cf. hazard n. and adj. Phrases 3). Now English regional (rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games rafflec1405 passagec1425 treygobet1426 mumchance1528 trey-trip1564 lots?1577 novum?1577 fox-mine-host1622 in and in1630 merry main1664 snake1688 pass-dice1753 chicken hazard1781 Shaking in the Shallow1795 sequin hazard1825 chuck-a-luck1836 Newmarket1837 chicken1849 poker dice1870 under and over1890 sweat1894 crown and anchor1902 Murrumbidgee1917 beetle1936 liar dice1946 Yahtzee1957 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. diiij To playe at the cardes and dyce, Some of theym are nothynge nyce, Both at hasard and momchaunce. 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo i. f. 7 Ready..to abandon thy company, to forsake Venice, to forsweare my country, to sette..al that I haue at a mumme chaunce. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller Induct. sig. A3^v Gallant squires, haue amongst you: at mumchance I meane not, for so I might chaunce come to short commons. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. C2^v I thoght I had bin at Mum-chance my bones ratled so with iaunting? 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. iv. sig. M Nor play with Coster-mongers at Mum-chance, Tray-trip, God make you rich..but keepe The Gallant'st company, and the best Games. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 116 Do you conceive they will be better pleased when they shall be told, that upon like occasions you are at Mum-chance or Stool-ball? 1824 J. R. Planché Woman never Vext ii. i. 11 Steph. Dice, dice, mine Host!.. Shall we..handle the bones? Sharpe. Passage, novum, mumchance—what you will. 1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 222 Mumchance, by mere accident, ‘'twas a mumchance’. 1932 R. Macaulay They were Defeated i. xii. 90 Shall I show you my new cribbage, or will you try primero or mumchance? 2002 www.bvt.org.uk 26 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) Queen Elizabeth I often won at card games, not because she was good, but people were too scared to not let her win! Try playing this favourite Tudor card game called Mumchance. †2. Silence. to play mumchance: to keep a dogged silence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > refuse to speak to play mumchance1551 to dummy up1926 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > remaining obstinately mute > a dogged silence mumchance1551 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cvij^v He played momme chaunce and wolde make none answere. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mumchaunce or silence. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxvii. f. 283 He began to do the part which she had commaunded, playing Mumchaunce, and vsing other signes, that he would do his duetie, accordynge to hir demaund. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 198/1 Mumchance... A game. Who can stay silent the longest.] †3. Scottish. Masquerade; mumming. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > a mumming mumming1417 mummery1465 mumchance1581 1581–2 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 229 Jhone Gilleis, doctour in Jhone Blakis schole, oblist himself nocht to pas in mwmschance after supper to mak playes or vse siclyke vaniteis heirafter. 1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. vi. sig. M8 They haue..gone to mumchances, mumries, & vnknawin language. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 87 At evin our soueranis maid the maskrie and mumschance, in the quhilk the quenis grace, and all hir Maries and ladies were all cled in men's apperrell. 4. A person who acts in a mime or dumbshow; (hence) a person who has nothing to say. Also used as a nickname, or as the type of a silent person. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > one who does not speak silentiary1611 mum1666 mumchance1694 strong silent man1839 taciturnist1887 oystera1910 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > actor in mime mummera1456 mute1579 puppeta1592 pantomime1606 pantomimic1617 mumchance1694 mime1784 pantomimist1833 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus iv. xi, in tr. Plautus Comedies 114 Why stand ye like a Mum~chance? What are ye tongue-ty'd? 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mum-chance, one that sits mute. He looks like Mum-chance that was Hang'd for saying of nothing. 1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iii. i. 36 He's as slow in speech as aunt Margery, when she's reading Thomas Aquinas, and stands gaping like—Mumchance. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 16 What did God make tha vor? Speak, mumchance. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Doldrum ii. i, in Dramatic Wks. IV. 492 Why you good-for-nothing mum-chance—why don't you say something? Are we to let Mrs. Auburne have all the prate to herself? 1827 M. Edgeworth Grinding Organ i. viii. 14 in Little Plays for Children (1859) 274 It's your own fault that you stand like mum chance there, and that your husband is so ill mannered. 1866 J. Bowring Lang. I. v. 36 Mumchance, a silly, silent person. 1894 W. Raymond Young Sam & Sabina xv. 155 Why, 't have a-made uu a proper mumchance, sim-zo. B. adj. Silent, mute; tongue-tied. Frequently in to sit (also stand, etc.) mumchance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 3 Jan. 2/1 Conscience tthat [sic] was so clamorous before, is Mumchance, and says nothing to the matter. 1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding i. iv. 4 He stood mumchance, and spoke never a living syllable. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. ix. 213 I always speak to gentlefolks that speak to me; I've no notion of sitting mum chance, when gentlemen are so civil as to speak genteel to one. 1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 250/1 Set him [sc. an author] on top of a stage-coach, he will make no figure; he is mum-chance, while the slang wit flies about. 1839 S. Lover Hall Porter ii. iii. 26 (The ante-room is full of company, who sit in groups, whispering.) Mrs. B. (Aside.) I never did see such a mumchance set. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 248 Have they no liberty, no will, no right to speak? Are they obliged to sit mumchance? 1884 H. C. Merivale Florien i. ii. 28 That fellow 'prentice of thine, who has been as mum-chance all this while as a mute at a funeral. 1915 L. Abercrombie End of World in Georgian Poetry, 1913–15 198 When there comes a passenger among us, One who has heard what's stirring out beyond, 'Tis a grutchy mumchance fellow in the dismals! 1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 133 For my part I remained always stupefied and mumchance. 1989 L. Clarke Chymical Wedding 48 I stood mumchance, in slight shock, as I watched him make off to greet newcomers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mumchancev. Brit. /ˈmʌmtʃɑːns/, /ˈmʌmtʃans/, U.S. /ˈməmˌtʃæns/ Forms: 1600s 1800s– mumchance; also Scottish pre-1700 mumschance. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mumchance n. Etymology: < mumchance n. Compare Middle Dutch mommecansen (Dutch mommekansen to play dice), Middle Low German mummenschanzen to take part in a carnival procession. Now English regional. †1. intransitive. To masquerade. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > be or go in disguise [verb (intransitive)] mask1579 mumchance1606 to show (also hang out) false colours1655 masquerade1677 to parade as1887 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall vii. sig. C1^v [At funerals] in steed of mourning in the dust, as they did oft-tymes, we mumchance and mourgean in such dilicate duilles. 2. intransitive. English regional. To keep silent, to remain sullenly silent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] to hold one's tonguec897 to keep one's tonguec897 to be (hold oneself) stilla1000 to say littleOE to hold one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to keep (one's) silence?c1225 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 stillc1330 peacec1395 mum1440 to say neither buff nor baff1481 to keep (also play) mum1532 to charm the tonguec1540 to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546 hush1548 to play (at) mumbudgeta1564 not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590 to keep a still tongue in one's head1729 to sing small1738 to sew up1785 let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814 to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824 to choke back1844 mumchance1854 to keep one's trap shut1899 to choke up1907 to belt up1949 to keep (or stay) shtum1958 shtum1958 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 41 Why don't you speak? What do you stand mumchancing there for? 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 153 Don't sit mumchancing there by yourself. a1903 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 201/1 Read the newspaper aloud, do not mumchance. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 198/1 Mumchance now! Not a wodd ter onnybody. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1528v.1606
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