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Mumchance

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Silence. Mumchance was a game of chance with dice, in which silence was indispensable. (Mum is connected with mumble; German, mumme, a muffle; Danish, mumle, to mumble.)

“And for ‘mumchance,ʹ howeʹer the cehane may fall,

You must be mum for fear of spoiling all.”


Machiavell’s Dogg.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mull
Mulla
Mulmutine Laws
Mulready Envelope (The, 1840)
Multipliers
Multitudes
Multum in Parvo (Latin)
Mum
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumchance
Mummy
Mummy Wheat
Mumpers
Mumping Day
Munchausen (Baron)
Mundane Egg (The)
Mundilfori
Mundungus
Munera
Munkar and Nakir

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