Crossword clues for mum
mum
- It's the word!
- With mouth shut
- On the q.t
- Ornamental flower, for short
- Not saying a word
- Far from forthcoming
- British family member
- The word?
- The word, at times
- Not exactly talkative
- Keeping quiet
- It may be "the word"
- British mother
- Autumn blossom, briefly
- This is the word
- The word, maybe
- The word, if you're silent
- The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers
- The Queen ___ (member of the British royal family who died in 2002)
- Shh ... it's the word!
- Parent (who's kept or is the word!)
- Not saying anything
- Not divulging a thing
- Not blabbing
- Mother's Day flower, in Australia
- Large flower
- Large corsage flower
- Lapel adorner, for short
- It's the word?
- It might be the word
- It may be the word
- Having sealed lips
- Hardly blabby
- Family name in Nottingham
- Dad's mate, to a Brit
- Corsage item
- Common bloomer
- Chicago's official flower, familiarly
- Canterbury parent
- Mother's flower?
- Saying nothing
- Member of a British family
- Uncommunicative
- Queen ___ (mother of the Queen of England)
- Big bloom
- England's Queen ___
- Closemouthed, about star's secret
- Tight-lipped
- Britain's Queen ___
- Clammed up
- Not telling
- Silent, about star's secret
- "The word" in silence
- Not talking
- Not saying a thing
- It's "the word" when you're being silent
- Quiet flower
- On the q.t.
- Of China
- Informal terms for a mother
- Secrecy
- British parent
- Fall flower, for short
- Buttoned up
- It's sometimes the word
- Showy flower, for short
- Quiet; mother
- Quiet member of the family?
- Woman who's delivered mail originally: I don't know
- Silent relation
- Silent parent
- Half speak unintelligibly, keeping this quiet
- Tight-lipped, one raising issue
- Fall flower
- Fall bloomer, familiarly
- Corsage flower
- Ornamental flower
- Daisy's cousin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mum \Mum\, a. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Mumble.]
Silent; not speaking; as, to keep mum.
--Thackeray.
The citizens are mum, and speak not a word.
--Shak.
mum's the word keep this a secret; don't tell anybody.
Mum \Mum\, interj. Be silent! Hush!
Mum, then, and no more.
--Shak.
Mum \Mum\, n. [G. mummere, fr. Christian Mumme, who first brewed
it in 1492.]
A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
--Addison.
The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum.
--Pope.
Mum \Mum\, n.
Silence. [R.]
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"be silent," 1560s, from Middle English mum, mom (late 14c.), inarticulate closed-mouth sound, indicative of unwillingness or inability to speak. As an adjective meaning "secret" from 1520s. Phrase mum's the word is first recorded 1704.
abbreviation of chrysanthemum, first attested 1915 in the jargon of gardeners.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context UK Australia Canada New England informal English) mother. 2 (context dated English) A term of respect for an older woman. Etymology 2
n. A chrysanthemum. Etymology 3
1 (context colloquial English) silent. 2 (context colloquial English) secret. interj. stop speak! hush! n. (context obsolete English) silence v
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to act in a pantomime or dumb show Etymology 4
n. A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Mum (or mummy) is a colloquial term for mother, a female parent.
Mum or Mums may also refer to:
- chrysanthemum, or mum, a plant
- Bamum kingdom or Mum, a sultanate of present-day Cameroon
- Mum, Burma, a village
- Mum language, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea
- Mum (deodorant)
- múm, an experimental Icelandic musical group
- Mum Jokmok, a Thai comedian
- muMs da Schemer, actor and poet best known for his role on the television series Oz
- Mums Records, a record label
- Mum (TV series), a British sitcom
- .mum - a suffix for Microsoft Update Manifest files in Windows Update computing environments
MUM or MUMS may refer to:
- Multifocal plane microscopy
- Maximal unique match
- Monash University, Malaysia campus
- Maharishi University of Management
- Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society
- M-U-M (Magic-Unity-Might), a magazine published by the Society of American Magicians
- MikroTik User Meeting, a conference on MikroTik RouterOS software and RouterBoard hardware
- MUMS National Parent-to-Parent Network, a support group
- Muslim University of Morogoro in Tanzania
Múm are an Icelandic experimental musical group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.
Mum was the first brand of commercial deodorant. Containing a zinc compound as its active ingredient, it was developed and patented by an inventor in Philadelphia in 1888 whose name has been lost to history. It was named for the term "mum" meaning "to keep silent" as in the popular phrase " Mum's the word" Mum was originally sold as a cream in a jar and applied with the fingertips. The small company was bought by Bristol-Myers in 1931.
Mum is a 2016 British sitcom written by Stefan Golaszewski centred around recently widowed, suburban 59 year old Cathy (played by Lesley Manville) and her family, during the year following her husband's death. Each episode is named after a calendar month in this year. Each episode is set in Cathy's house and features her supportive lifelong friend Michael (played by Peter Mullan), and her family: son Jason and his girlfriend Kelly, her brother Derek and his new partner Pauline, and her in-laws.
"Mum" was the Belarusian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, performed in English by Polina Smolova. As the previous Belarusian entry had not finished in the top 10, Smolova performed the song in the semi-final.
The song was performed fifth on the night, following Andorra's Jenny with " Sense tu" and preceding Albania's Luiz Ejlli with " Zjarr e ftohtë". At the close of voting, it had received 10 points, which placed it 22nd (second last) and meant that Belarus would have to take part in the next semi-final as well.
The song is an energetic ( Michael Jackson-inspired, according to some publicity) dance number, in which Smolova pleads with her mother to accept her lover. Many reviewers unkindly concentrated on the grammatical inaccuracies of the English of the lyrics ("Say me no more that he's an arrant liar", for example). The performance was similarly energetic, with a number of dancers and backing singers performing acrobatic moves on stage.
Category:Eurovision songs of Belarus Category:Eurovision songs of 2006 Category:Television in Belarus Category:2006 songs
Usage examples of "mum".
Manning a month, when Mum began to complain about all the Aborigines living in the swamp.
Yes, and Mum said if we ave any more lodgers we might get a bit rich, then we could all ave two weeks oliday at Margate instead of only one.
It took Mum a long time to get ready and while she powdered her face and arranged the elaborate ornamented folds of her head-gear and dug out her necklaces and bangles, her wrappers and white shoes, and plaited her hair hurriedly in the mirror, Dad was already asleep on his three-legged chair.
It was charged upon the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry, the land-tax at four shillings in the pound, annuities on the sinking-fund, an application of one million from that deposit, and the loan of the like sum to be charged on the first aids of next session.
Mum dips the cows, deworms them, brands them with our brand, feeds them up on the Rhodes grass until their skins are shiny and they are so fat it seems as if they might burst, and then sends them on the red lorry into Umtali, to the Cold Storage Corporation, to be sold as ration meat.
Ordinarily I don't mind getting softly drunk next to the slowly collapsing heap that is Mum, but I have to go back to boarding school the next day, nine hours by pickup across the border to Zimbabwe.
Mum and Dad don't use the siren except to announce their arrival at parties.
Mum, learning at her knee about whelping and worming, infections, dysplasia, mites and ticks.
With the careless mechanicism of human speech, the technicalities of practical mumming were retained in these productions when they had ceased to be concerned with the stage at all.
A host of adoring Mums and Dads, all of whom thought their particular daughter a budding Margot Fonteyn, watched proudly.
They talked to me about their lives at home and what part of the country their Mums and Dads had come from.
If he had, it might have given children a chance to run away from him when he tried to trap them in his spare bedroom and pin them to the single bed with his fat gray-hair-sprouting belly while mums and dads drank coffee in the kitchen with his stick-insect purple-mottled bruised-and-battered wife.
We looked in mute horror at all those frazzled, frequently pregnant young mums dragging their sobbing brats past another sugar counter, and all those ominously silent, red-faced fathers ready to explode at the first wrong word from their sulking, surly children, and we thought - we are better than that.
There were the usual people out enjoying the late August sun - mums with toddlers, a few joggers, a guy on a bench listening to his Walkman and a number of teens hanging out farther down the hill.
The waitresses used to the violence of a back street cafe with its drunks and druggies and single mums and unemployable youths were frozen to the spot.