Mumps is valid Scrabble Word

Is mumps a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is mumps valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for MUMPS in dictionary:

VERB:

MUMP, to mumble, mutter
To assume a demure, melancholy, or sanctimonious expression; to be silent and sullen; to sulk, mope. Also with object with it.
Scottish. To grumble, complain peevishly. Now often in "to mump and moan".
To utter indistinctly or inarticulately, as if with toothless gums; to mumble, mutter. Also with out.
To beg, go about begging; to sponge upon.
British slang. Of a police officer: to accept a small gift or bribe in return for services.

NOUN:

infectious disease with swelling in the glands of the neck
Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands

A block of peat; a spade's depth in digging turf.

Words related to MUMPS

mump10 mumped13 mumping14 mumpish16 mumpishly21

Words that contain MUMPS

mumpsimus17 mumpsimuses19

How to use MUMPS in a sentence

Each dirty cheek is stuffed as though a plague of mumps had fallen on the street.
As well punish with a blow the cheek that is disfigured by the mumps.
Hardly had they got thawed out when an epidemic of mumps broke out.
After Verdun it must be jolly to be in the hospital with nothing more dangerous than mumps, and a nice, pretty girl, in a white cap, to pet you.
Galileo had his mechanical whooping-cough, musical mumps, artistic measles, and now the hectic flush of mathematics burned on his cheeks.
As far as her experience has taught us, we are firmly convinced that having a second girl is like having mumps on the other side too.
If I did not find my appetite so unimpaired, I should fancy this morning I was suffering from an acute attack of mumps.
Mumps is at the moment in our midst, and as is generally the case has fallen on the poorest of the community.
In our abbey we never study for fear of the mumps, which disease in horses is called the mourning in the chine.
I drank until my jaws were stiff as if with mumps, and my ears ached, and in a few minutes my legs were tied in cramps.

Now we expect this malady, as we look for mumps and measles in the growing child.
He alleges that in the month of February, 1862, he was vaccinated with impure virus and in the same month contracted mumps.
When he started for home, his cheeks sometimes looked as if he had a very severe case of the mumps.

Similar words containing MUMP without suffix s

mump10 mumped13 mumper12 mumpers13 mumping14 mumpish16 mumpishly21 mumpsimus17 mumpreneur16 mumpishness20 mumpreneurs17 mumpsimuses19 mumpishnesses22

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