mumchance
adj/ˈmʌm.tʃɑːns/UK/ˈmʌm.t͡ʃæns/US
Etymology
From Middle English mommen (“mutter, be silent”) and Middle High German mummenschantze (“game of chance as part of a masquerade, mime performance, revel”), from Old French momen (“mask”) and chance (“game of chance”).
- derived from momen
- derived from mummenschantze
- derived from mommen
Definitions
Mute, or not speaking
Mute, or not speaking; silent.
- I wrote Miss Crane off as mediocre because although she chatted quite pleasantly and intelligently over coffee she was mostly mumpchance at the dinner table. Oh, not mumpchance tout court.
- The two little children stood mumchance, but with a kindly air.
An old game of chance played with cards in silence.
- The Taker oꝛ the Verſer is the man muſt play with him, the Cardes are fetch, Mumchance oꝛ Decoy is the game: the firſt wager is Wine, the ſecond two pence in money, from two pence they riſe to a ſhilling, from that to a pound, […]
- Bear and wolf, look to your prisoner—prance, hobby—hiss, dragon, and halloo, boys—we grow older every moment we stand idle, and life is too short to be spent in playing mumchance.
A silent, stupid person.
- I'm not such a mumchance, to be sure, but I've as good a fortune
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA