mummer

Etymology
From, , equivalent to , perhaps conflating with , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 16th Century German, Middle Dutch , , Middle Low Saxon , Dutch and  as well as Spanish.

Perhaps both of the conflated terms are from the same ultimate root, as note Middle Low Saxon, Dutch , German , 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
 * 2) An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * German:, verkleideter Mensch
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Bulgarian: мим
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: Pantomimenspieler,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish: mimare

Verb

 * 1) * 1988, Chris Brookes, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research, A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe (page 53)
 * We mummered taverns and restaurants and the airport (the dead man went round and round on the luggage carousel). We mummered Portuguese fishing trawlers in the harbour, where the show worked despite the language barrier,
 * 1) * 1988, Chris Brookes, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research, A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe (page 53)
 * We mummered taverns and restaurants and the airport (the dead man went round and round on the luggage carousel). We mummered Portuguese fishing trawlers in the harbour, where the show worked despite the language barrier,