mummer

n. 哑剧演员, 演员

发音

UK /ˈmʌm.ə(ɹ)/
US /ˈmʌm.ɚ/

词形变化

mummers 复数 mummers mummered mummering mummers 三单 mummering 现在分词 mummered 过去式 mummered 过去分词

别名

mimmer

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.

  2. 2.

    An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

v.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of mum (“to act in pantomime or dumb show”).

    We mummered taverns and restaurants and the airport (the dead man went round and round on the luggage carousel). We mummered Portuguese fishing trawlers in the harbour, where the show worked despite the language barrier, […]

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

mime mimer pantomimer pantomimist

上位词 5

player actor thespian histrion roleplayer

词源

From 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”). Perhaps both of the conflated terms are from the same ultimate root, as note Middle Low Saxon mummen (“to speak indistinctly, to disguise oneself”), Dutch mommen (“to speak indistinctly”), German mummen (“to speak indistinctly”), English mump (“to grimace, mumble”).

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