...mummer's mask ; Low G. nuiHime, a mask. 0. The word is imitative, from the sound mum or mom, use<l by nurses to frighten or amuse children, at the same...cover their faces. Cf. G. mummel, a bug-bear. Der. miimmer-y, MF moinmerie (F. momtrie . Mummy. (F.-Ital.- Arab. -Pets.) K. met/lie \mamie in Cotgrave)....

...mummer ' from the Dutch through Old French, and explains it by the Low German Mumme, a 'mask.' He adds 'The word is imitative, from the sound mum or mom,...at the same time pretending to cover their faces.' Whether the fourteenth - century mumming was silent or not, there is no reason to suppose that the...

...a mummer's mask ; Low G. in:imme, a mask. ß. The word is imitative, from the sound mum or //10/«, used by nurses to frighten or amuse children, at the...same time pretending to cover their faces. Cf. G. mumme!, a bug-bear. Der. mtimmer-y, MF mommcrie (V. moniertet . Mummy. (F. -Ital. -Arab. -Pera.) F....

...the disguisings." He places them all in " the reign of Henry VI, and probably [between] 1427-30." 4 " The word is imitative, from the sound mum or mom,...at the same time pretending to cover their faces." 1 Chambers, i, p. 400; cf. Schelling, i, pp. 73 f. 2 Chambers, i, p. 396. 3 Cf . chapter iii, below....

...English mummers' play) yet the real nature of the performance was never quite forgotten*. > 'The origin is imitative, from the sound mum or mom, used by nurses to frighten children, like the E. bo! See Wedgwood, who refers to the habit of nurses who wish to frighten or amuse...

...Cot. -0. Da, memmtn, ,o go a-mnmmintr; cf. mom-atntickt, a nummer's mask ; Low. G. mumme, a mask. 5. The word is imitative, from -the sound mum or mom,...same time pretending to cover their faces. Cf. G. mumme/, a bug-bear. Der. mummer-y, OF mommtrit. Do. mtmft*, to mump, cheat (Sewel) ; cf. mtmmritn,...