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dumminess

noun

Etymology

From dummy + -ness.

  1. derived from dom
  2. derived from dumm
  3. inherited from *dʰewbʰ-✻
  4. inherited from *dumbaz✻
  5. inherited from *dumb✻
  6. inherited from dumb — “silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”
  7. inherited from dumb — “silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”
  8. suffixed as dummy — “dumb + -y”
  9. suffixed as dumminess — “dummy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being silly or foolish.

  2. A disease in horses, characterised by immobility and a hanging position of the head, the…

    A disease in horses, characterised by immobility and a hanging position of the head, the result of acute encephalitis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dumminess. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA