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mumps

noun
🔊/mʌmps/
🔊/mʌmps/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a disease, especially of children, that causes painful swellings at the sides of the face and under the ears腮腺炎Topics Illnessc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from obsolete mump ‘grimace, have a miserable expression’.