mummery n : meaningless ceremonies and flattery [syn: flummery]

English

Noun

1. merrymaking; the performance of a mummer

   • I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour’s mummery, and so I got admission — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819)

Mummery may refer to:

• Performance of a Mummers Play.
• Albert F. Mummery (1855–1895), British mountaineer
• Browning Mummery (Opera tenor) (1888–1974), Australian operatic tenor
• Browning Mummery (Electronic sound works), stage name of Andrew Lonsdale (born 1961), Australian electronic musician
• James Howard Mummery, a British biologist and source of the eponymous Pink tooth of Mummery

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