mummer
A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festivalA person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 2
Meaning
2 sensesA person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
Mumme, verkleideter Mensch
An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.
Pantomimenspieler, Pantomime
мимmim
an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
Origin
From Middle English mummer, mommer, equivalent to mum + -er, perhaps conflating with Old FFrom 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”).
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Forms
plural: mummersSynonyms
4 synonyms- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression:mimemimerpantomimerpantomimist
Word family
2 related wordsSee also
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