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Definition of Mumming

Mumming
Mumm Mumm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mumming.] [D. mimmen to mask, mom a mask; akin to G. mumme disguise; prob. of imitative origin, and akin to E. mum, mumble, in allusion to the indistinctness of speech occasioned by talking from behind a mask. Cf. Mumble, Mummery.] To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. --Spenser.

Meaning of Mumming from wikipedia

- ****ociated with a sword dance though both also exist in Britain independently. Mumming spread from the British Isles to a number of former British colonies. It...
- hospitality, and a place was set at the table for them during a meal. Mumming and guising were part of the festival from at least the early modern era...
- Beelzebub as a character in the mumming play St George and the Dragon by the St Albans Mummers, 2015...
- City of Philadelphia, and parts of the United Kingdom. Also known as mumming or janneying, it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress...
- practice of mumming, which is closely related to souling. John Pymm wrote that "many of the feast days ****ociated with the presentation of mumming plays were...
- In Fred Karno's "Mumming Birds" sketch (1904), a pie in the face appears in the 'Frivolity music hall scene'....
- English mumming play. Texts of a large number of medieval mumming plays have survived, and the play performed by the side is in the mainstream mumming play...
- ISBN 0-19-517284-1. Harland, John; Wilkinson, T. T. (1873). "Pageants, maskings and mummings". Lancashire legends traditions, pageants. George Routledge and Sons. pp...
- all merry with Bagpipes, Fiddles, and other musicks, Giggs, Dances, and Mummings." The character of 'Christmas' (also called 'father Christmas') speaks...
- Bert Coutts' Yankee-Doodle Girls, and Chaplin was playing a drunk in Mumming Birds. He was 19 and she was 15. He remembered her as "a slim gazelle,...