Crossword-Solution: DUM
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DUM | anagram | MDU, MUD, UMD |
We have 25 clues for the answer “DUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gingerbread palm | 1 answer |
| While: Lat. | 1 answer |
| When repeated, a dolt | 1 answer |
| When repeated, a classic candy | 1 answer |
| When doubled, a hollow-nosed bullet | 1 answer |
| Twice, a lollipop brand | 1 answer |
| Twice, a certain sucker | 1 answer |
| Syllable between "do wah diddy diddy" and "diddy do" | 1 answer |
| Scat singer's syllable | 1 answer |
| Rimshot syllable | 1 answer |
| Musical syllable before and after "da" | 1 answer |
| Musical sound before and after "da" | 1 answer |
| Half a bullet | 1 answer |
| Dee alternative (the category is "words after Tweedle") | 1 answer |
| "___ spiro, spero" (motto of South Carolina) | 1 answer |
| "___ spiro spero" (South Carolina motto) | 1 answer |
| "___ Spiro, Spero" (S.C. motto) | 1 answer |
| "Forgot the lyrics" syllable | 1 answer |
| palm tree Africa | 2 answers |
| DOOM palm | 2 answers |
| GINGERBREAD tree | 2 answers |
| GINGERBREAD palm tree | 2 answers |
| Scat syllable | 2 answers |
| Doo-wop syllable | 3 answers |
| Africa palm tree | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DUM (5)
Many travelers have seen the drums of the great apes, and some have heard the sounds of their beating and the noise of the wild, weird revelry of these first lords of the jungle, but Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, is, doubtless, the only human being who ever joined in the fierce, mad, intoxicating revel of the Dum-Dum.
Had he not himself battled for the grisly forearm of a great ape at that long-gone Dum-Dum, when he had slain the fierce Tublat and won his niche in the respect of the Apes of Kerchak? The dancers were leaping more closely to him now.
Deep in the jungle, buried far from sight of man, they came upon such another little natural arena as had witnessed the wild ceremony of the Dum-Dum in which the boy’s father had taken part long years before.
Mahadeo! Mahadeo! He made all,-- Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother’s heart for sleepy head, O little son of mine!_ Her Majesty’s Servants You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee.
Thy riddles grow dark, oh! drifting cloud, And thy misty shapes grow drear, Thou hang'st in the air like a shadowy shroud, But I am of lighter cheer; Though our future lot is a sable blot, Though the wise ones of earth will blame us, Though our saddles will rot, and our rides be forgot, "DUM VIVIMUS, VIVAMUS!" Fytte VIII Finis Exoptatus [A Metaphysical Song] "There's something in this world amiss Shall be unriddled by-and-bye."--Tennyson.
Quotes with DUM (3)
Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like the…
Oh, come on Em." He stopped walking and looked me in the eyes. His own were dark and shiny. "You know how I feel about you," he muttered." I do?" He stepped closer and whispered, "When you're around, music plays in my head." My eyes welled. "Music," I repeated softly." Well, you know." He grinned. "It's the Jaws theme. Da dum. Da dum.
It his mind, they reminded him of ‘Tweedle Dee’ and ‘Tweedle Dum’, with an extra emphasise placed on the ‘Dum’!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1961–2022).