Meanings
noundummerer (plural dummerers)
plural dummerers
- obsoleteSomeone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging.
every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers , Abraham men, &c.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
Origin
Related to dumb.
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dummerer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dummerer
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Chicago
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