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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MUM'MER, n. One who masks himself and makes diversion in disguise; originally, one who made sport by gestures without speaking.
Jugglers and dancers, anticks, mummers.
MUM'MERY, n.
1. Masking; sport; diversion; frolicking in masks; low contemptible amusement; buffoonery.
Your fathers
Disdained the mummery of foreign strollers.
2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade to delude vulgar minds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression [syn: mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1502 1. a performer in a pantomime; broadly actor 2. one who goes merrymaking in disguise during festivals

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an actor in a traditional masked mime. 2 archaic or derog. an actor in the theatre. Etymology: ME f. OF momeur f. momer MUM(3)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mummer Mumm"er, n. [Cf. OF. mommeur. See Mumm, and cf. Momier.] One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. --Milton.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Masker, buffoon.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

The mouth.

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