The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dummerer \Dum"mer*er\, n.
One who feigns dumbness. [Obs.]
--Burton.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) One who pretends to be unable to speak.
Usage examples of "dummerer".
Among their members were the violent and thieving ex-soldier rufflers, the horse-thieving priggers, the soap-frothing grantners, and the dummerers who mutely mouthed and feebly gestured for their coins but in the security of Whitefriars told riotously ribald tales and slapped their sturdy thighs in high glee.
Among their members were the violent and thieving ex-soldier rufflers, the horse-thieving priggers, the soap-frothing grantners, and the dummerers who mutely mouthed and feebly gestured for their coins but in the security of Whitefriars told riotously ribald tales and slapped their sturdy thighs in high glee.