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Dumb-bells

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A corruption of Dumpels or Dumples, the same word as Dumplings, and meaning heavy (weights). (German and Danish, dumm, heavy, dull, insipid; dumpling, a heavy, insipid pudding; dumps, heavy, stupid moroseness.) (See Dump.)

 

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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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Dulia
Dull as a Fro
Dull as Ditch-water
Dulness
Dum Sola (Latin)
Dum Spiro, Spero
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus (Latin)
Dumachus
Dumb-barge (A)
Dumb-bell Nebula (The)
Dumb-bells
Dumb-bells
Dumb-bidding
Dumb-cow (To)
Dumb Crambo
Dumb Dog (A)
Dumb Ox of Cologne (The)
Dumb-waiter
Dummy
Dummies
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