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say it: muhmps
mumps is a noun meaning "an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands". It carries one recorded sense.
an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mumps come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.