mumps

英 [mʌmps] 美 [mʌmps]

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mumps 腮腺炎

来自mump,含混的说话声，-s,复数后缀。用于指腮腺炎。

mumps: mumps: [16] The dialect noun mump meant ‘grimace’; and the use of its plural mumps for the disease is thought to have been originally an allusion to the distorted expression caused by the swollen neck glands. Mump itself is presumably related to the verb mump ‘sulk’ [16], and belongs to a family of words (including also mumble [14]) based on the syllable mum, representing an ‘indistinct sound made through closed lips’ (mum ‘silent’ [14] itself, as in ‘keep mum’, comes from this source, as does mummer [15], originally ‘mime actor’).
=> mum, mumble, mummer
mumps (n.): type of contagious disease, c. 1600, from plural of mump "a grimace" (1590s), originally a verb, "to whine like a beggar" (1580s), from Dutch mompen "to cheat, deceive," originally probably "to mumble, whine," of imitative origin. The infectious disease probably so called in reference to swelling of the salivary glands of the face and/or to painful difficulty swallowing. Mumps also was used from 17c. to mean "a fit of melancholy."

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3. Measles, mumps and whooping cough are spreading again because children are not being vaccinated.: 因为孩子们没接种疫苗，麻疹、腮腺炎和百日咳又蔓延开来。