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Mummery vs Mammery - What's the difference?

mummery | mammery |

As a noun mummery

is merrymaking; the performance of a mummer.

As an adjective mammery is

prone to mumble or stammer; mumbly or mammery can be .

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

    • mammery

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of earlier mamorie, a variant of (mammering), as if from .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Prone to mumble or stammer; mumbly.

    • Etymology 2

    Misspelling.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)