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Crossword-Solution: MUMPS 5 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Mumps n. Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
Mumps n. A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a
nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or
infectious parotitis.

We have 41 clues for the answer “MUMPS”

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Parotitis 1 answer
Disease generally vaccinated against with measles and rubella 1 answer
Disease with swollen glands 1 answer
Doctors call it parotitis 1 answer
Illness that is a swell time? 1 answer
MMR vaccine target, in part 1 answer
Malady with swelling 1 answer
Not-so-swell swelling 1 answer
One of the M's in the MMRV vaccine 1 answer
One target of a childhood vaccine 1 answer
One target of the MMR vaccine 1 answer
Contagious viral disease 1 answer
Part of M.M.R.V. 1 answer
Pediatrician's problem. 1 answer
Salivary glands swelling 1 answer
Swell reason to stay in bed? 1 answer
Swelling malady 1 answer
Swollen cheek ailment 1 answer
Swollen glands cause 1 answer
Vaccination target 1 answer
What a certain vaccine can prevent 1 answer
Common childhood illness, once 1 answer
Childhood ailment, typically 1 answer
Childhood ailment 1 answer
Childhood illness 2 answers
Childhood disease 3 answers
Viral disease 5 answers
Kind of vaccine 7 answers
infectious disease 9 answers
A WIDESPREAD OUTBREAK OF AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE 10 answers
AN IMAGINED MEMORY OF A CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE 10 answers
AN ACUTE CONTAGIOUS VIRAL DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY FEVER AND BY SWELLING OF THE PAROTID GLANDS 10 answers
AN ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY A RASH WITH JOINT SWELLING AND FEVER 10 answers
ANY INFECTIOUS DISEASE THAT DEVELOPS AND SPREADS RAPIDLY TO MANY PEOPLE 10 answers
ANEMIC LOOKING FROM ILLNESS OR EMOTION 10 answers
DISABLE OR CONFINE, AS WITH AN ILLNESS 10 answers
A PERIOD OF ILLNESS 10 answers
A GRAVE ILLNESS 10 answers
A slight illness 11 answers
CHILDHOOD MALADY 12 answers
childhood 16 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with MUMPS (5)

The Trip to England.—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
They set up with her all night, Miss Mary Jane said, and they don’t think she’ll last many hours.” “Only think of that, now! What’s the matter with her?” I couldn’t think of anything reasonable, right off that way, so I says: “Mumps.” “Mumps your granny! They don’t set up with people that’s got the mumps.” “They don’t, don’t they? You better bet they do with _these_ mumps.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Yes, you are his sure victim: yet his work is not all to your hurt--only part of it; for he is like your family physician, who comes and cures the mumps, and leaves the scarlet-fever behind.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
The whole estate was left to Dicky Carter, who hadn't been able to come, owing to his being laid up with an attack of mumps.
Where There's A Will Mary Roberts Rinehart 2006
Posteriorly, the neck presented a natural appearance; but anteriorly, to use the author's description, his neck resembled a combined case of mumps and goiter.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996

Quotes with MUMPS (3)

I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay." I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox. And there's one more - that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is cut, my eyes are blue, It might be the instamatic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke…
Shel Silverstein
Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
Dimitris Mita
The whole idea of it makes me feellike I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach acheor the headaches I get from reading in bad light--a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgottenthe perfect simplicity of being oneand the beautiful complexity introduced by two. But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit. At four …
Billy Collins
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 34 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).