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mum

noun

1 mum

Of China.

synonyms: Chrysanthemum morifolium, Dendranthema grandifloruom, florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum.

2 mum

Informal terms for a mother.

synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mummy.

Dutch: mama, mamma
Polish: mama, matka, rodzicielka

3 mum

Secrecy.

adjective

1 mum

Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.

synonym: silent.

Roget 581: aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, ... show more

Roget 585: silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as the grave etc. (still) 403; dumb etc. 581; unconversable.    taciturn, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, breathless, brief, brusque, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curt, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, economical of words, inarticulate, indisposed to talk, laconic, ma ... show more.

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