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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mum, Mumme, n.1 [e.m.E. mum(me, ME. mom(me (Piers Plowm.), of echoic origin: cf. Germ. mumm.] (Not) the slightest utterance or word. —1586 Calderwood IV. 532.
For there was never a word or mumme in that assemblie layed to your charge 1603 Philotus xxxix.
If … of ȝour head I heir ane mum, Ȝea sall repent it sair 1671 Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. II. 704.
There was never so much as one mum heard of this bond all that while 1684 G. Sinclair Truth's Victory over Error (1684) To Reader.

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