mummed
SayMUMD/mʌmd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of mum.
The actors mummed their parts while a narrator read the story aloud.
Unable to speak a word of Greek, she had mummed her way through the market, pointing and gesturing at everything she wanted.
Note
The final m of mum doubles before -ed, and one form serves as both simple past (they mummed) and past participle (had mummed). Two meanings share it. The usual one is acting a story out in dumb show; the other, obsolete British slang, means silencing someone and takes a person as its object, as when a few coins mummed the watchman.
mummed is a form of mum
- Spelling
- mum → mummed: double the m, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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