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Mimmer

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of mummer. alt-of, alternative

    "Plays performed by troupes of medieval traveling players, or occasionally by a few daring townsfolk, were known as mummers' plays, and those who performed them were alternately known as mummers or mimmers."

Verb
  1. 1
    To dote; dream; mammer. rare, transitive

    "A mimmering driveller! — Shove him without! He's not worth torments."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from an alteration of mammer; or from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren (“to ponder”); or from Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to keep in mind, remember”). See also mammer. Compare also Saterland Frisian miemerje (“to ponder sadly, think deeply”), Danish mimre and Norwegian mimre (“to reminisce”).

Etymology 2

Variation of mummer.

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