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mumchance
/ ˈmʌmˌtʃɑːns /
adjective
- silent; struck dumb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mumchance1
C16 (masquerade, dumb show): from Middle Low German mummenschanze masked serenade; from mummen (see mummer ) + schanze chance
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Example Sentences
So we continued our way; he one side of my lady chatting and smiling, and I on the other glum and mumchance.
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Are they obliged to sit mumchance, and to be ordered about till they are the laughing-stock of young and old?
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Are they obliged to sit mumchance, and to be ordered about till they are the laughingstock of young and old?
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Passage and Novem were games at dice, and mumchance one at cards.
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Mumchance (WH286,a), a game of hazard with cards or dice: see Nares.
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