2. mum's the word keep silent, don't tell anyone, cross your heart and hope to die, keep secret, keep to oneself, keep under one's hat, play dumb,
mumble, v. speak inarticulately, talk incoherently, swallow one's words, utter indistinctly, mince one's words; mutter, murmur, grumble, mump, Obs. mussi-tate; splutter, hem and haw, sputter; ramble, maunder, gibber, jabber, gabble, babble, patter,
mumbo jumbo, n. 1. incantation, chant, magic formula, magic word, invocation, conjuration, ritual; hocus-pocus, open sesame, abracadabra; charm, spell, rune, Scot. cantrip.
2. claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, SI. hot air; nonsense, fiddle-de-dee, gobbledegook, jargon, gibberish, Jabberwocky; moonshine, blather, drivel, foam, froth, humbug, bunkum, SI. bunk, U.S. SI. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, SI. applesauce, SI. eyewash; rubbish, SI. tripe, refuse, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, SI. garbage, SI. crap, SI. crock, SI. bull; balderdash, SI. horsefeathers, hogwash, stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. SI. tosh; fudge, foolishness, rigmarole, amphigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, SI. bushwa, SI. baloney, SI. bilge or bilge water, SI. meshugaas, Scot. and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle.
mummer, n. masquerader, masker; actor, performer, entertainer, player, strolling player, Fr. comedien ambulant; pantomimist, mimist, mimer, mime, Marcel Marceau, impersonator, satirist, Fr. farceur; comedian, comic, jester, fool, clown, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin, buffoon, pantaloon, straight man, foil,
mummery, n. 1. masquerade, harlequinade, farce; impersonation, personation, pantomime, mime; parody, caricature, burlesque, burletta, travesty, satire, Inf. take-off, lampoon; buffoonery, comedy, slapstick comedy; entertainment, amusement, diversion, divertissement.
2. pageantry, pomp, ostentation, display; show, spectacle, performance, ceremony, celebration, fete, gala.
munch, v. 1. chump, Dial, chomp, champ, crunch, craunch, chew, Dial, chaw, eat or masticate noisily; bite, gnaw, nibble.
2. Slang,
munch out SI. pig out, SI. make a pig of oneself, SI. stuff one's face, glut oneself, gorge oneself.
mundane, adj. 1. worldly, earthly, terrestrial, terrene, subcelestial, subastral, sublunary; secular, temporal, material, physical, corporeal, bodily, fleshly, carnal, sensual.
2. common, ordinary, everyday, usual, prosaic, household; routine, customary, regular, normal, typical; commonplace, banal, hackneyed, trite, stale, platitudinous.
municipal, adj. civic, civil, city, metropolitan, urban, oppidan; local, community, communal, town, burghal, village, neighborhood; public, social,
municipality, n. city, metropolis, capital or capital city, metropolitan area; megalopolis, environs, suburbs or suburb, Fr. banlieue, bedroom community; borough, township, town, (in Scotland) burgh, Inf. burg, county seat, Esp. Brit, county town, village, hamlet, Archaic, thorp, kraal; district, precinct, constituency, bailiwick, Chiefly Brit, parish,
munificence, n. 1. bounty, bounteousness, liberality, free-handedness, open-handedness, generosity; ungrudgingness, unsparingness, lack of stint; big-heartedness, hospitality, beneficence; charity, charitableness, magnanimity; altruism, unselfishness, phi-
