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Mammer vs Mummer - What's the difference?

mammer | mummer |

As a verb mammer

is (rare) to hesitate.

As a noun mummer is

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

mammer

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (rare) To hesitate.
    • Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on'' — Shakespeare, ''Othello .
  • (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

    • Derived terms

    *mammery *mammering

    mummer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
  • An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

    • Synonyms

    * (actor in a pantomime) mime

    Related terms

    * mummery * mumchance