dummerer

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English

Etymology

Related to dumb.

Noun

dummerer (plural dummerers)

  1. (obsolete) One who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak).
    • 1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers , Abraham men, &c.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dummerer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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