10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUMCHANCE»
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best, and his orthography none of the most correct. Mumchance puts the
coldness of the public all down to the feult of the times. What's the good of
painting the shop, sir I he asks. Poor father never did, sir, and we had nobility
here. Nobility, sir.
best, and his orthography none of the most correct. Mumchance puts the
coldness of the public all down to the fault of the times. "What's the good of
painting the shop, sir? he asks. Poor father never did, sir, and we had nobility
here. Nobility, sir ...
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Gaslight and Daylight, with Some London Scenes They Shine Upon
I generally admit, when Mumchance asks me this question, that nobility would not
. ' That's it, sir,' says Mumchance triumphant (he always says sir, even to the
ragged little boys who come in for a penn'orth of pickles). ' That's it, it's the times.
George Augustus Sala, 1859
Master Polydore let his hands fall to his sides in an attitude of limp dismay; then
he sighed heavily; then he rose slowly to his feet— there was nothing for it but to
summon Mumchance, and let the warrant instantly be put into effect. As it was ...
(3) In a satire on the "Romish Clergy," printed early in the sixteenth century, the
hishops are charged with playing at cards and dice, including the games of
hazard and mumchance : — " To play at the cards and dice, Some of them are
nothing ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Cp. Budget, Cby ; and Mumchance, below. Have these bones rattled, and this
head So often In thy quarrel bled 7 Nor did I ever winch or grudge It, For thy dear
sake. Quoth she, Mumbudget Butler : Hudibrat. I, In, 208. Mumchance. Silence.
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, ...
369 Mum chance, thatwas hang'dfor saying nothing: versions are attested from
the middle of the sixteenth century (ODEP, 'mumchance'). 'Mumchance' denotes
a silent person (from 'mum' meaning silent,and the dice game 'mumchance': ...
Jonathan Swift, Valerie Rumbold, 2013
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Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds
According to Greene the game most commonly used for this villany was called
Decoy, 0r Mumchance-at-carcls.1 It was very simple: the pack was shuffled and
cut, each player called a card, and the man whose card came first won. The trick
...
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The Court Masque: A Study in the Relationship Between Poetry ...
Certainly the silence of the mummers was proverbial, the game of mumchance
was often used as a metaphor for silence or secrecy1, and although it cannot be
proved that silence was invariable, and examples have been brought forward to ...
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
But leaving cardes, lett's go to dice awhile, To passage, treitrippe, hazarde, or
mum-chance. Machiavcll's Dogg. 1617, sign. B. Silence seems to have been
essential at it ; whence its name : And for mumchance, howe'er the chance do fall
, You ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUMCHANCE»
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mumchance is used in the context of the following news items.
Moping on a broomstick
Neverout: Why, Miss, you are in a brown study, what's the matter? Methinks you look like mumchance, that was hanged for saying nothing. «OUPblog, Dec 14»
Research shows you pretty much whatever you want
Just sitting there, mumchance, looking vacantly out the window, wondering if you should get up and make a cup of tea, will do you no good at ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 14»
Youngsters step back in time at Hall 't'th' Wood Museum
“People were trying different traditional Tu-dor games including Mumchance, a card game which nobody dared to win when they used to play against Queen ... «The Bolton News, Oct 13»
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