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Definition of Mumming

Mumming
Mumm Mumm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mumming.] [D. mimmen to mask, mom a mask; akin to G. mumme disguise; prob. of imitative origin, and akin to E. mum, mumble, in allusion to the indistinctness of speech occasioned by talking from behind a mask. Cf. Mumble, Mummery.] To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. --Spenser.

Meaning of Mumming from wikipedia

- the modern Mummer's Parade. The practice may also be related to miming. Mumming was preceded by the Roman holiday Saturnalia, in which partiers masqueraded...
- mumming parties organised by English monarchs, Henry VIII being known for taking his court mumming incognito. Later, Henry would ban social mumming,...
- hospitality, and a place was set at the table for them during a meal. Mumming and guising were part of the festival from at least the early modern era...
- seen as precursors of movie silent comedy. His innovative 1904 sketch Mumming Birds, produced for the Hackney Empire in London, became the longest-running...
- relatives or even pets" as they do so. Since the Middle Ages, a tradition of mumming on a certain holiday has existed in parts of Britain and Ireland. It involved...
- slapstick comedy. It made its first appearance in a music hall sketch called Mumming Birds (1904) produced by the English theatre impresario Fred Karno for...
- Beelzebub as a character in the mumming play St George and the Dragon by the St Albans Mummers, 2015...
- Karno's Komics produced a new sketch for the Hackney Empire in London called Mumming Birds, which included the "pie in the face" gag, in which one person hits...
- of her origins. In some parts of Italy, especially the central regions, mumming takes place on Epiphany eve. Dolls are made of her and effigies are burnt...
- practice of mumming, which is closely related to souling. John Pymm wrote that "many of the feast days ****ociated with the presentation of mumming plays were...