mumps

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Well, these kind of mumps is a kind of a harrow, as you may say--and it ain't no slouch of a harrow, nuther, you come to get it hitched on good Well, it's awful, I think," says the hare-lip.

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  1. plural noun An acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes of the pancreas, ovaries, or testes. This disease, mainly affecting children, can be prevented by vaccination.

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  • The mumps, they affected his hearing, and he had this pocket of pus in there. —  Lost Echoes by Joe R Lansdale
  • Before the mumps, as a little kid, maybe I was centered. —  Lost Echoes by Joe R Lansdale
  • I betcha we all had the same li'l childhood sicknesses - mumps, measles, chickenpox, flu, colds, and getting our tonsils (and adenoids) out etc ... we prolly all took the sugar cube with the Salk vaccine (but we couldn't taste it) to prevent polio, too ... —  Keep the Coffee Coming
  • However at the same time, doctor friend told me today -- mumps are up and measles are up. —  IAmATVJunkie.com: News, Great Clips, Unfiltered Snark (and sometimes, free stuff!)
  • Next the steersman got down with the mumps, then you took the shingles, and another sailor got lumbago, while the third mate had to crawl around with a boil on his foot as large as a cabbage. —  The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht.
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  1. Perhaps from pl. of dialectal mump, grimace.

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  1. Pl. of mump, n., from mump, v. Cf. mump.
 

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