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Mummer vs Bummer - What's the difference?

mummer | bummer |

As nouns the difference between mummer and bummer

is that mummer is a person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival while bummer is (obsolete) a forager especially in sherman's march to the sea of november to december 1864 or bummer can be a disappointment, a pity, a shame or bummer can be (british|slang|uncommon) homosexual male.

As an adjective bummer is

(bum).

As an interjection bummer is

exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).

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

    bummer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A forager especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
  • (US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
  • A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
    • Derived terms
    * (noun)

    Etymology 2

    From bum + .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bum)

    • Etymology 3

    From bum + .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
    • That's a total bummer .
    Related terms
    * bum out

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).

    • Etymology 4

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang, uncommon) homosexual male