Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dumb person; especially, one who feigns dumbness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who feigns dumbness.
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- noun obsolete One who pretends to be unable to speak.
Etymologies
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Related to dumb.
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Examples
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The man who pretends to be deaf and dumb went about then, and was known as the dummerer.
The History of London Walter Besant 1868
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