Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mummer
Participle: mummered
Gerund: mummering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mummer |
| you | mummer |
| he;she;it | mummers |
| we | mummer |
| you | mummer |
| they | mummer |
Perfect
| I | have mummered |
| you | have mummered |
| he;she;it | has mummered |
| we | have mummered |
| you | have mummered |
| they | have mummered |
Past
| I | mummered |
| you | mummered |
| he;she;it | mummered |
| we | mummered |
| you | mummered |
| they | mummered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mummered |
| you | had mummered |
| he;she;it | had mummered |
| we | had mummered |
| you | had mummered |
| they | had mummered |
Future
| I | will mummer |
| you | will mummer |
| he;she;it | will mummer |
| we | will mummer |
| you | will mummer |
| they | will mummer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mummered |
| you | will have mummered |
| he;she;it | will have mummered |
| we | will have mummered |
| you | will have mummered |
| they | will have mummered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mummer |
| you | mummer |
| he;she;it | mummer |
| we | mummer |
| you | mummer |
| they | mummer |
Perfect
| I | have mummered |
| you | have mummered |
| he;she;it | have mummered |
| we | have mummered |
| you | have mummered |
| they | have mummered |
Imperfect
| I | mummered |
| you | mummered |
| he;she;it | mummered |
| we | mummered |
| you | mummered |
| they | mummered |
Pluperfect
| I | had mummered |
| you | had mummered |
| he;she;it | had mummered |
| we | had mummered |
| you | had mummered |
| they | had mummered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mummer |
| you | would mummer |
| he;she;it | would mummer |
| we | would mummer |
| you | would mummer |
| they | would mummer |
Perfect
| I | would have mummered |
| you | would have mummered |
| he;she;it | would have mummered |
| we | would have mummered |
| you | would have mummered |
| they | would have mummered |
Imperative
| you | mummer |
| we | Let's mummer |
| you | mummer |
Verbs conjugated like 'mummer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mummer'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English mummer, mommer, equivalent to mum + -er, perhaps conflating with Old French momeor (“jester, entertainer”), from mommer (“to wear a mask”), from momon (“mask”). Compare German Mumme (“mask”), 16th Century German mummen (“to disguise oneself”), Middle Dutch mommen, mummen (“to go about in a mask, to disguise”), Middle Low Saxon mommen (“to wear a mask, to disguise”), Dutch mom (“mask”) and mimmen (“to mask”) as well as Spanish momo (“grimace”).
2. Perhaps both of the conflated terms are from the same ultimate root, as note Middle Low Saxon mummen (“to speak indistinctly, to disguise oneself”), Dutch mommen (“to speak indistinctly”), German mummen (“to speak indistinctly”), English mump (“to grimace, mumble”). See: English '
mump'.
Sample Sentences
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There is a general agreement that niggering [blackface performance] took over from mummering to keep up the old custom. [1976, Cake and Cockhorse, volume 7, page 220:]
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We mummered taverns and restaurants and the airport (the dead man went round and round on the luggage carousel). We mummered Portuguese fishing trawlers in the harbour, where the show worked despite the language barrier, […] [1988, Chris Brookes, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research, A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe (page 53)]