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* '''mumper:''' a beggar, a mendicant; a person who sponges on others; a genteel beggar → in some parts of England the term is "not applied to beggars in general, but to those only who go in troops from house to house, in some places on St. Thomas's Day, in others on St. Stephen's Day" * '''mump:''' to cheat; to overreach * '''mumper:''' (''Romani'') a halfbred Roma or gypsy * '''number''' * '''Mum, Pa''' → parents double their number by begetting children → '''doubling mum''' suggests superfetation and the begetting of twins ** '''mumper''' → mum + père (''French'') father * '''Mum:''' a sweet strong beer first brewed in 1492, the year of Columbus's discovery of America

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