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Summery vs Mummery - What's the difference?

summery | mummery |

As an adjective summery

is relating to the summer.

As a noun mummery is

merrymaking; the performance of a mummer.

summery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to the summer.
  • Of weather, typical of summer.

    • Synonyms

    * (relating to the summer) aestival, estival, summer (as a modifier) * summerish, summerlike, summerly

    Derived terms

    * summeriness

    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