mummery

«mummery» in Mova's school dictionary: a silly, pointless ritual or show, with too much pretence… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (plural mummeries)

meaning for a pupil

Mummery is a silly, pointless ritual or show, with too much pretence and fuss. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a council or king holds a strange ceremony, and a character asks what it all means

examples

• "What is all this mummery?" asked the Councillor. tree →
• The old ritual was just mummery to him. tree →
• Stop the mummery and tell me the truth. tree →

note

nothing for maths; it names a ceremony, not an amount.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mummery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.