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Mummery vs Bummery - What's the difference?

mummery | bummery |

As nouns the difference between mummery and bummery

is that mummery is merrymaking; the performance of a mummer while bummery is .

mummery

English

Noun

(mummeries)
  • merrymaking; the performance of a mummer
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
    • I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour’s mummery , and so I got admission
  • a ridiculous or ostentatious ceremony, especially of a religious nature
  • * 1951 , Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    • Why, you unweaned cub, he believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all.
  • a showy but empty performance

    • bummery

    English

    Noun

    • There was a scrivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. — R. North.
    (Webster 1913)