mumps
Meaning of mumps
plural noun
a contagious and infectious viral disease causing swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face, and a risk of sterility in adult males.
late 16th century: from obsolete mump ‘grimace, have a miserable expression’.
Information about mumps
- It is a name.
- The singular form of mumps is: mump.
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Hyphenation of mumps
mumps
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- mumps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of mumps
- German: Mumps, Ziegenpeter
- French: oreillon, oreillons
- Spanish: paperas, papera, parótidas
- Italian: orecchioni
- Portuguese: caxumba, papeira
Anagrams of mumps
Words that rhyme with mumps
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