mumchance

adjective

silent; struck dumb

Word Origin

C16 (masquerade, dumb show): from Middle Low German mummenschanze masked serenade; from mummen (see mummer) + schanze chance

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Examples from the Web for mumchance

Historical Examples

Passage and Novem were games at dice, and mumchance one at cards.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 (of 15)
Robert Dodsley
Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honore de Balzac
Mumchance (WH286,a), a game of hazard with cards or dice: see Nares.
Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
Various
So we continued our way; he one side of my lady chatting and smiling, and I on the other glum and mumchance.
The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane
Frank Barrett

mumchance

Word Origin

Examples from the Web for mumchance

Historical Examples

Passage and Novem were games at dice, and mumchance one at cards.

Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece.

Mumchance (WH286,a), a game of hazard with cards or dice: see Nares.

So we continued our way; he one side of my lady chatting and smiling, and I on the other glum and mumchance.