Contextualizebeta

mumpsimus

noun
/ˈmʌmpsɪməs/US

Etymology

Malapropism of Latin sumpsimus, form of sūmō (“to take”), from a story of an old monk who misrecited the Eucharist with quod in ōre mumpsimus instead of quod in ōre sumpsimus “which we have taken into the mouth”, and stubbornly continued using the incorrect form even after being corrected. Attested 1530 in The Practice of Prelates by William Tyndale, variously attributed to Richard Pace (1517) or Desiderius Erasmus.

  1. derived from sumpsimus

Definitions

  1. A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are…

    A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.

  2. An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mumpsimus. 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