mumchance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Mute, or not speaking; silent.

   “I wrote Miss Crane off as mediocre because although she chatted quite pleasantly and intelligently over coffee she was mostly mumpchance at the dinner table. Oh, not mumpchance tout court.”

2. isim An old game of chance played with cards in silence.

   “The Taker oꝛ the Verſer is the man muſt play with him, the Cardes are fetch, Mumchance oꝛ Decoy is the game: the firſt wager is Wine, the ſecond two pence in money, from two pence they riſe to a ſhilling, from that to a pound, […]”

3. isim A silent, stupid person.

   “I'm not such a mumchance, to be sure, but I've as good a fortune”