dummerer

See also: dümmerer

English

Etymology

Related to dumb.

Noun

dummerer (plural dummerers)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers , Abraham men, &c.

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